V. 



A 



PROPOSED 



EDUCATIONAL CODE 



FOR 



COLORADO 




Prepared by committee appointed under the Civic and Legislative Bureau of 
the Denver Civic and Commercial Association in collaboration with educators, 
scliool officials and business men from all parts of Colorado; and based upon the 
most progressive educational organization and legislation m other states viewed 
in the light of Colorado's needs. 

1917 



COMMITTEE ON REVISION 

GEO. W. LOOMIS, Chairman 

JASv^H. BAKEE 

L. WARD BANNISTER 

H. A. BUCHTEL 

W. W. REMINGTON 

R. E. WRIGHT, Secretary 



PROF. FRANK L. tiLAPP 

Assistant to Committee in Drafting Out- 
line Into Statutory Form 

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON REVIEW 

MRS. MARY C. C. BRADFORD 

Superintendent of Public Instruction 
Chairman 

H. V. KEPNER 

Ex-President, Colorado State Teachers' 

Association 

W. H. SMILEY 

President, Educational Council 

Colorado State Teachers' Association 

ICONSULTING ATTORNEYS 

HENRY J. HERSEY 
ROGER H. WOLCOTT 






PROPOSED 

EDUCATIONAL CODE 

FOR 

COLORADO 




Prepared by committee appointed under the Civic and Legislative Bureau of 
the Denver Civic and Commercial Association in collaboration with educators, 
school officials and business men from all parts of Colorado ; and based upon the 
most progressive educational organization and legislation in other states viewed 
in the light of Colorado's needs. 

1917 






D. of D. 
JUL 21 191? 



FOREWORD 

The_Cqmmittee on Revision of the Colorado Educational^ Code presents a 
''Proposed Educational Code," which embodies the work of educators from 
all parts of Colorado and the United States. The Committee has acted in the 
capacity of an agency for assembling educational ideas and as a clearing house 
for the views of those interested in education in Colorado. Every person or 
group of persons having suggestions to offer has been heard gladly, and the 
code altered in many important respects as a result of these conferences. 

The provisions relating to bonds have been drafted with the aid of edu- 
cators and of a Committee composed of bond dealers and bond attorneys. It is 
believed that these provisions have been so drawn as to simplify the issuance of 
bonds by school districts and at the same time to protect the districts and the 
purchasers of the bonds. 

The provisions relating to libraries have been drafted after conference 
with a Committee of the State Library Association. It is the understanding of 
the Code Committee that library provisions of the Code have the approval of 
the Library Committee. 

It has been the aim of the Committee to give due credit to everyone who 
has participated in the preparation of the Code in any way. For any omis- 
sions in this respect the Committee expresses regret and pleads in extenuation 
the enormous task of assembling the Code and eliminating conflicting pro- 
visions. 

In the preparation of the Code the report of the survey of the ''Admini- 
stration and Support of the Common School System of Colorado," made by the 
United States Bureau of Education, at the request of the Survey Committee 
of State Affairs, and with the co-operation of the Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, has been invaluable. Those who have read the report and the 
Code have doubtless noted that the Code is conservative in the changes it pro- 
vides as compared with the changes recommended by the Bureau. 

The work of the Special Committee on Review, consisting of the Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction, Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford ; Dr. H. V. Kepner, 
Ex-President of the Colorado State Teachers Association ; and Dr. William H. 
Smiley, President of the Educational Council of the State Teachers Associa- 
tion, has been of inestimable value. This committee studied in detail and offered 
many valuable criticisms concerning the first draft of the full text of the Code. 
Material changes were made in the text as result of their report. 

The Committee acknowledges its indebtedness to "State and County Edu- 
cational Reorganization," by Ellwood P. Cubberley. 

The Committee believes that the thanks of the state at large are due the 
Civic and Legislative Bureau of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association 
for its provision of adequate funds to finance this great undertaking. Without 
these funds it would have been impossible to have prepared and presented the 
Code in the form submitted. 

Many organizations and individuals have endorsed the Code. It is the 
confident hope of the Committee that many others will read this document 
carefully and give the Committee the benefit of their views. 



The Committee has labored strenuously to submit a Code worth while. It 
remains for the other friends of education in the State to urge its enactment. 
Won't you do your part by writing to your legislators? 



Attention is called to the fact that the Code in statutory form, 
beginning on the next page, is capable of statutory enactment whether 
the constitutional amendments shown on Page 78, providing for the 
creation of a State Board of Education, consisting of five persons to 
be appointed by the Governor, and for the appointment of state and 
county superintendents, are adopted or rejected. 

Much benefit will accrue to the state by the adoption of the Code. 
In the judgment of the Committee, the greatest benefits will not be 
realized until the way is opened for the complete plan by means of the 
constitutional amendments referred to. 



The parts in italics are the sections of the present law which are neither 
repealed nor amended. They are shown at the points where they would logi- 
cally be found in a compilation of the school laws. 




A BILL 



FOR 



AN ACT IN RELATION TO SCHOOLS AND 

EDUCATION 



Senate Bill No. 312, introduced February 1, 1917, by Senators Andrew, Coldren, 
Schermerhorn, Hetherington, Dunklee, Elliot, Knauss and Starkweather. 

(Senate Committee on Education and Educational Institutions) 



House Bill No. 418, introduced February 1, 1917, by Representatives 

Frisbey and Smith. 



Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of 
the State of Colorado: 

ARTICLE I. 
STATE EDUCATIONAL COMMISSION. 

Section 1. Provision for — 

There is hereby created a State Educa- 
tional Commission to consist of three mem- 
bers which shall exercise the powers and 
perform the duties imposed upon the State 
Board of Education by the provisions of 
this act subject to the direction and ap- 
proval of the said State Board of Educa- 
tion. 

Section 2. Appointment — 

The members of the State Educational 
Commission shall be appointed by the 
governor. One member shall be appointed 
each year to serve for a term of three 
years or until the powers and duties of said 
Commission are assigned to some other 
body. The appointment shall be made on 
or before the first day of June of each year 
and the term of office of each member shall 
begin on the first day of July following 
appointment. Vacancies shall be filled by 
appointment for the unexpired term by the 
governor as soon as possible after they 
occur. 



In selecting members of the State Edu- 
cational Commission the governor shall be 
guided by the practical experience, char- 
acter and training of the appointees as fit- 
ting them for the duties of their office. 

As soon as this act shall go into effect the 
governor shall appoint three members of 
the first State Educational Commission and 
shall designate whose terms shall expire in 
one, two and three years respectively. 

Section 3. Organization and meetings. 

The Commission shall organize by elect- 
ing one of its members as president and 
employing a secretary. The president shall 
serve in such capacity until the expiration 
of his term as a member of the Commission 
and shall then, if reappointed to the com- 
mission, be eligible for re-election as presi- 
dent. 

The meetings of the Commission shall be 
held in the offices provided for its use in 
the Capitol building at such times as may 
be agreed upon by the members. 

The Commission shall be provided at the 
expense of the state with adequate offices 
in the State Capitol building, necessary 
clerical assistance, postage, stationery and 
other necessities. 



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Section 4. Compensation. 

Each member of the Commission shall 
receive a salary of six hundred dol- 
lars ($600) per annum and actual ex- 
penses. The salar}^ shall be paid from 
the general fund of the state in month- 
ly sums of fifty dollars ($50) each 
and the members of the Commission shall 
be reimbursed to the amount of the ex- 
penses necessarily and actually incurred in 
the performance of their official duties from 
the general fund of the state in the same 
manner as are other state officers. Said 
salary and expenses shall be paid by 
the state treasurer upon due warrants of 
the state auditor, which officer is hereby 
directed and authorized to issue said war- 
rants upon receipt of proper vouchers. 
Section 5. Power of recommendation. 

The State Educational Commission shall 
make recommendations to the superintend- 
ent of public instruction regarding the 
exercise of the powers and duties assigned 
to that officer by the provisions of this act ; 
and such recommendations, when approved 
by the superintendent, shall have full force 
and effect. 

ARTICLE II. 

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 

The superintendent of public instruction, 
the secretary of state and attorney general, 
shall constitute a State Board of Education, 
of which the superintendent of public in- 
struction shall be president. (R. S. 5866.) 

Organization and meetings. The State 
Board of Education shall meet at the State 
Capitol on the last Saturday in December 
in each year, and at such other times and 
places as may, by them, be deemed neces- 
sary, and shall have power to adopt any 
rules and regulations not inconsistent with 
law, for its own government, and for the 
government of the public schools. {B. S. 
5867.) 

Section 1. Powers and duties — 

The State Board of Education shall exer- 
cise the following powers and perform the 
following duties : 



(a) Appoint officers. Upon nomination 
of the superintendent of public instruction, 
it shall appoint the following officers: A 
deputy superintendent of public instruc- 
tion ; a high school visitor ; an elementary 
and rural school visitor; an assistant state 
librarian who shall have charge of the state 
library, under such regulations as may be 
prescribed by the state librarian, or by law, 
and who shall be trained and experienced 
in modern library methods ; and a statis- 
tician. These officers shall be employes of 
the Board and shall carry out its policies 
under the immediate supervision of the 
superintendent of public instruction. 

The State Board of Education shall have 
power to appoint in its discretion such ad- 
visory bodies, including a State Library 
Commission, as may be desirable. Such 
advisory bodies shall in every case be com- 
posed of citizens of the state qualified to 
advise upon the special subject for which 
the advisory body is established, and the 
members thereof shall serve without pay or 
compensation of any sort. 

(b) Supervision. It shall have gen- 
eral supervision of elementary and secon- 
dary education throughout the state ; it 
shall act in an advisory capacity to those in 
control of institutions devoted to the train- 
ing of teachers and supported by the public 
funds of the state ; to those in control of the 
teacher-training departments of other in- 
stitutions supported by the public funds 
of the state and to those in control of the 
teacher-training functions of private in- 
stitutions ; it shall have control of the 
examination and certification of applicants 
seeking the state certificates or diplomas, 
establishing and maintaining standards 
therefor, except as otherwise provided in 
this act. 

(c) Approval of courses of study. It 
may recommend courses of study for public 
schools and recognize such private schools 
as meet the standard requirements estab- 
lished by the Board. 

(d) Regulation of educational facilities. 
It may make rules and regulations for the 



general conduct of the public schools, play- 
grounds, libraries, and museums. 

(e) Requirement of records and reports. 
It may require uniform records to be kept 
in all public educational institutions and 
uniform reports to be submitted therefrom. 
It may require reports as hereinafter pro- 
vided from all private and independent in- 
stitutions and from all charitable and re- 
formatory institutions engaged in educa- 
tional work. 

(f ) Power of inspection. For the proper 
enforcement of the provisions of this act 
relating to compulsory attendance at 
schools, it shall have the power to inspect all 
private or independent institutions engaged 
in educational, charitable or reform work 
for persons of school age. 

(g) Control of education of inmates of 
special state institutions. It shall deter- 
mine the courses of study, the standards of 
instruction and the training and qualifica- 
tions of the teachers in all state institutions 
for neglected or dependent or mentally de- 
ficient children; in the state industrial 
schools ; the state reformatories ; and the 
state schools for the deaf and blind. 

(h) Requirement that instruction be in 
English language. It shall require the in- 
struction to be in the English language in 
all schools which are subject to the provi- 
sions of this act. 

(i) Examination and certification of 
teachers, janitors, and other employes. It 
may establish and conduct a system of 
examination and certification of teachers, 
janitors, and other employes for service in 
the public schools. 

(j) Regulations concerning buildings 
and other school facilities. It shall estab- 
lish general uniform regulations concern- 
ing the architectural plans and sanitary 
features of public school buildings and con- 
cerning the supply, distribution and sale of 
text books and school apparatus. 

(k) Conducting of educational meetings. 
It may organize and conduct teachers' in- 
stitutes, summer normal training schools 



and classes for instruction in library meth- 
ods throughout the state, determining the 
place of meeting, the length of the sessions, 
the fees and the qualifications of the in- 
structors. 

(1) Education of persons over twenty- 
one years of age. It may authorize and 
supervise the education of persons over 
twenty-one years of age in the public ele- 
mentary and secondary schools of the state 
or in special continuation or other schools 
provided for that purpose. Persons under 
twenty-one years of age shall not be ex- 
cluded from these special continuation or 
other schools without cause. 

(m) Supervision of school census. It 
shall have general supervision of the school 
census as defined herein, shall prescribe 
forms therefor, and shall make and en- 
force all necessary^ regulations for a com- 
plete and thorough permanent census rec- 
ord of all children between the ages of six 
and eighteen inclusive. 

(n) Decision in appealed cases. It shall 
have the power to hear appeals from the 
decisions of school officers and its decisions 
in such cases shall be final, subject only to 
appeal to a court of competent jurisdiction. 
In all cases heard by it the State Board of 
Education shall have the power of sub- 
poena, of administration of oath, and of 
examination of ^^dtnesses. Attendance of 
witnesses upon subpoena at such hearings 
shall be enforced by the courts and the 
proper penalty imposed for failure to obey 
subpoena. 

(o) Report to governor. It shall prepare 
a biennial report to the governor setting 
forth the condition of the educational in- 
terests under its supervision and inspec- 
tion. 

(p) Recommendation of legislation. It 
shall prepare in suitable form and recom- 
mend to the governor for submission to the 
legislature such legislation as it may deem 
of interest to the schools of the state, and 
shall appear before the educational com- 
mittees of the General Assemblv when in- 



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vited to do so by said committees or either 
or any of them. 

(q) Dissemination of educational infor- 
mation. It shall collect and disseminate 
throughout the state in such form as it may 
think best information relating to school 
and library architecture and sanitation ; to 
the care, nurture, training and instruction 
of children ; and to the educational inter- 
ests of the state in general. It shall also 
have prepared for loan to school boards 
duplicate plans and specifications for school 
and library buildings. 

(r) Recommendation for reorganization 
of schools. It shall, as there may be need, 
recommend plans for the reorganization of 
schools in county school districts ; for in- 
struction in agriculture and household 
economics; for industrial, commercial and 
teacher-training classes in secondary 
schools. 

(s) Conduct of extension bureau. It 
shall conduct an Extension Bureau which 
shall give information in regard to lecturers 
on subjects of general educational interest ; 
in regard to advisers on education to par- 
ent-teachers associations, and other organ- 
izations for educational purposes, and as 
far as practicable in regard to library work 
and any other educational matter concern- 
ing which inquiry may be made. 

(t) Maintenance of registry bureau. It 
shall provide a registry for teachers and 
librarians seeking employment, which reg- 
istry shall be for the information of school 
boards, superintendents and others desiring 
the services of teachers or librarians. 

(u) Authorization of short school term. 
It may, on petition of a county school dis- 
trict board setting forth sufficient reason 
therefor, authorize a total school term of 
less than nine months' duration for any 
school of that district for a specified year. 

(v) Salary of assistant state librarian. 

The annual salary of the assistant state 
librarian shall be 

(w) Payment of salaries and expenses. 
The salaries of the employes of the Board 



and the expenses incident to the perform- 
ance of its duties shall be paid out of the 
general fund of the state in such manner as 
is provided for the payment of the salaries 
and expenses of other state departments. 

(x) General. And in general the State 
Board of Education shall have such other 
powers and perform such other duties, not 
inconsistent with the existing law of the 
state, as may be necessary for the carrying 
out of the purposes of this act. 

ARTICLE III. 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 
INSTRUCTION. 

Section 1. Powers and duties. 

The superintendent of public instruction 
shall exercise the following powers and 
perform the following duties : 

Oath and bond. Before entering upon 
his duties he shall take and subscribe the 
oath of office prescribed by the constitution, 
and shall also execute a bond in the penalty 
of five thousand dollars, payable to the 
State of Colorado, with sureties to be ap- 
proved by the state auditor, conditioned 
upon the faithfid discharge of his official 
duties, and the delivery to his successor of 
all books, papers , documents and other 
property belonging to the office. Said bond 
and oath shall be deposited with the secre- 
tary of state. (R.S. 5872.) 

(a) Office, seal, records. He shall have 
an office at the seat of government where 
shall be kept an official seal, and all books 
and papers appertaining to the business of 
his office. He shall file all papers, re- 
ports and public documents transmitted to 
him by the school officers of the several 
counties, each year separately, and hold the 
same in readiness to be exhibited to the 
governor, or to any committee of either 
house of the General Assembly. Copies of 
all papers filed in his office, and his official 
acts, may be certified by him, and when so 
certified, shall be evidence equally and in 
like manner as the original papers. 



(b) Reports. He shall, in addition to the 
reports required by constitution, submit a 
biennial report and such other reports as 
may be required concerning the affairs of 
his office to the State Board of Education. 

(c) Ex-Officio relationship. In addition 
to his services as state librarian and as 
president of the State Board of Education, 
he shall be ex-officio a member of the 
Board of Trustees of the State Teachers' 
College and the State Normal schools, 
and of the boards of control without the 
right to vote, of the State Home for De- 
pendent and Neglected Children, the State 
Industrial School for Girls, the State Indus- 
trial School for Boys, the State Home and 
Training School for Mental Defectives and 
the Colorado School for the Deaf and 
Blind. 

(d) Accounting for fees and payment 
of expenses. He shall pay all fees col- 
lected by him in connection with teachers' 
examinations into the office of the state 
treasurer. 

He shall receive in addition to his sal- 
ary an annual sum 

to defray his necessary and actual travel- 
ing expenses incurred in the performance 
of his official duties. Said salary and ex- 
penses shall be paid out of the general 
fund of the state by the state treasurer 
upon due warrants of the state auditor 
issued in the same manner and upon the 
same conditions as in the case of other 
state officers. 

(e) Nomination of assistants. He shall 
recommend to the State Board of Education 
for appointment by it the following 
officers: a deputy superintendent of public 
instruction; a high school visitor; an ele- 
mentary and rural school visitor ; an as- 
sistant state librarian trained and experi- 
enced in modern library methods ; a statis- 
tician ; and such other employes of the 
board as it may authorize. 

(f) General recommendations to board. 
He shall recommend to the State Board 
of Education for consideration and 



adoption such plans, forms, blanks, de- 
vices, publications, rules, regulations and 
measures as may be necessary or desira- 
ble for the efficient conduct of the busi- 
ness of his office and the exercise of the 
powers and duties of the said State Board 
of Education. 

(g) Supervision of school system. As the 
executive officer of the State Board of 
Education and in the name and by the au- 
thority of said board he shall exercise 
general supervision over the elementary 
and secondary schools of the state and 
over any other schools established by or 
under the authority of said Board. 

He shall also exercise in like manner, 
excepting as otherwise provided by law, 
general supervision over the county su- 
perintendent of schools and all other pub- 
lic school officers of the state. He shall 
also in like manner act in an advisory ca- 
pacity to those in control of ,all institu- 
tions, public, independent, or private, 
which are devoted primarily to the train- 
ing of teachers and to those in control of 
the teacher-training departments or class- 
es of other institutions. 

He shall also exercisct in like manner, 
general supervision over the work of 
teachers' institutes. In this connection he 
shall have power to appoint executive 
committees for the various normal insti- 
tute districts of the state. He shall also 
have power to make regulations for the 
conduct of such normal institutes and 
upon written petition of a majority of the 
teachers affected by any proposed change 
to alter temporarily the boundaries of nor- 
mal institute districts, such change or al- 
teration to be subject to revision by the 
State Board of Education. 

He shall certify to the state auditor the 
actual attendance at each teachers' insti- 
tute. 

(h) Interpretation of school law and 
regulations of board. Subject to appeal to 
the State Board of Education he shall de- 
cide upon written request of school boards. 



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school officers, teachers or other persons, 
the meaning and construction of the 
school law of the state and the rules and 
regulations of the State Board of Educa- 
tion and shall give proper publicity to his 
decisions. 

(i) Preparation of blank forms for 
county school officers. Under the author- 
ity of the State Board of Education he 
shall prepare and have printed all blank 
forms, registers, record books, and reports 
necessary for the conduct and admini- 
stration of the schools of the various 
counties. He shall not copyright such 
forms nor be directly or indirectly com- 
pensated by reason of the sale thereof. 
The printing of all such forms shall be 
paid for out of the general fund of the 
state which fund shall be reimbursed in 
the manner indicated in paragraph (j) 
next below. He shall also prepare in like 
manner test charts suitable for the phys- 
ical examination of school children. 

(j) Furnishing blank forms to county 
officers — expense charged to county's ap- 
portionment. He shall have printed the 
various blank forms referred to in Para- 
graph (i) next above and shall furnish 
the same in sufficient quantity to the 
county superintendent of schools of each 
county. All blank forms so furnished for 
the use of teachers and school officers 
shall be charged to the respective coun- 
ties at cost, and the county superintendent 
of schools shall receipt for and distribute 
the same among the districts of his county 
as they may require; and the amount so 
charged against each county shall be de- 
ducted from the amount apportioned to 
such courity at the next succeeding semi- 
annual apportionment of the state public 
school income fund; and the superinten- 
dent of public instruction shall certify to 
the state treasurer the aggregate amount 
of such deductions, and the treasurer shall 
thereupon transfer said amount from the 
public school income fund to the general 
fund of the state. 



(k) Printing of school law. Prom time 
to time at the direction of the State Board 
of Education he shall have the laws relat- 
ing to public schools printed in pamphlet 
form and shall supply school officers, 
school libraries and state libraries with 
copies thereof. Said printing shall be 
paid for out of the printing fund of the 
state on warrants of the state auditor is- 
sued upon the receipt by him of vouchers* 
approved by the superintendent of public 
instruction, and certified by the commis- 
sioner of public printing. 

(1) Suspension, revocation and rein- 
statement of certificates and diplomas. 
Upon presentation of sufficient evidence 
of immoral conduct, lack of scholarship, 
or of inefficiency in instruction he may 
revoke or suspend any teacher's certifi- 
cate or teaching diploma granted by the 
authority of the State Board of Educa- 
tion or other state authority, provided 
that his decision in these cases shall be 
subject to appeal to the State Board of 
Education. No certificate so revoked or 
suspended shall be reinstated except by 
action of the superintendent of public in- 
struction or upon the affirming of the ap- 
peal by the State Board of Education. 

Immediately upon the revocation of any 
teaching certificate, he shall give proper 
notice to the teacher holding such cer- 
tificate and to the superintendent under 
whose supervision the teacher is employed 
and shall take any other proper steps 
necessary to see that such person does 
not continue to teach in the public schools 
of the state. 

(m) Apportionment of school fund. He 
shall, under the direction of the State 
Board of Education, apportion and direct 
the disbursement of the various school 
funds of the state as specifically directed 
elsewhere in this act. 

(n) Fixing of surety bond of secretary 
of Board of Trustees of State Teachers' 
College and Normal Schools. 



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He shall fix the amount of surety bond 
to be given by the secretary of the Board of 
Trustees of the State Teachers' College and 
of the Colorado State Normal Schools. 

(o) Direction of employes of board. He 
shall direct the work of the employes of 
the State Board of Education. 

(p) General. As the executive officer 
of the State Board of Education in addi- 
tion to those enumerated above he shall 
have such powers and perform such duties, 
not inconsistent with existing law, as 
may be necessary for the efficient dis- 
charge of the duties of his office. 

ARTICLE IV. 

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF 
SCHOOLS. 

Section 1. Powers and duties. 

The county superintendent of schools 
shall exercise the following powers and 
perform the following duties : 

(a) Supervision. He shall have gen- 
eral supervision of the public schools of 
the county wherein he is elected. Pro- 
vided, that such supervision shall be only 
advisory in any first or second-class dis- 
trict employing a principal or superin- 
tendent who is under contract to give 
more than half of his time to supervision. 

Subject to the general authority of the 
State Board of Education, he shall exer- 
cise supervision over all the school prop- 
erty in his county; over all school rec- 
ords and reports ; over the keeping of the 
school census ; over the enforcement of 
compulsory attendance at school ; over the 
libraries and museums connected with 
schools under his supervision; and over 
the county vocational, industrial, and 
teacher-training schools. 

(b) Conducting teachers' meetings. For 
the purpose of encouraging professional 
interest and efficiency among the teachers 
of his county he may organize and con- 
duct reading circles, institutes, county 
teachers' associations, and meetings of 



citizens and teachers. He may also ar- 
range for the organization of libraries 
containing books and periodicals relating 
to education for the assistance of the 
teachers of his county. 

(c) Visiting of schools. As often as 
practicable he shall visit each school under 
his supervision and shall counsel and ad- 
vise the teachers and directors thereof. 

(d) Promotion and correlation of work 
of educational agencies. In every prac- 
ticable way he shall seek to promote and 
correlate with the schools of his county, 
the work of parent-teacher associations, of 
all libraries and museums that may serve 
the people in his county, of the state edu- 
cational institutions, of state educational 
organizations, and of all educational work 
in general. 

(e) Ex-officio relationships. In addi- 
tion to serving as commissioner of lands, 
he shall be ex-officio a member and secre- 
tary of the County High School Commit- 
tee, and the executive officer thereof and 
a member and the president of each Union 
High School Committee in his county. 

(f) Nomination of officers and teachers. 
He shall nominate for appointment by the 
board of directors of the county school 
district the following officers and em- 
ployes : an attendance officer ; and all prin- 
cipals, supervisors, regular and special 
teachers and clerical assistants needed for 
the efficient conduct of the schools of such 
district. He shall nominate for appoint- 
ment by the County Library Board, a coun- 
ty librarian, who shall, when practicable, 
be a person trained in modern library 
methods. Provided, that the public library 
located in the county seat of the county 
may be recognized and maintained as the 
county library under the joint control of 
the County Library Board and the Library 
Board of the city, and Provided, further, 
that when financial hardship will result 
from the employment of a county libra- 
rian, the county superintendent may per- 
form the duties of county librarian. 



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(g) Appointments to fill vacancies. He 
shall by appointment fill all vacancies, 
other than due to expiration of term, in : 
boards of directors of all school districts, 
except those of the first class and the 
county school district ; in the county high 
school committee; and in the union high 
school committees. 

(h) Conducting teachers' examinations 
and accounting for fees. He shall con- 
duct teachers' examinations according to 
law and under the rules and regulations 
of the State Board of Education, and im- 
mediately after the close of such exami- 
nations he shall transmit all the manu- 
scripts to the superintendent of public 
instruction for grading. 

He shall collect the fees prescribed by 
law for such examinations and forward 
the same to the superintendent of public 
instruction at the same time the manu- 
scripts are transmitted. 

(i) Issuance and revocation of certifi- 
cates. He shall immediately upon receipt 
of proper notice from the superintendent 
of public instruction issue to each success- 
ful applicant, if satisfied of the good 
moral character and the competency to 
teach of such applicant, the proper grade 
of certificate. 

He may revoke any certificate issued 
by himself, or his predecessors in office, 
upon satisfactory proof of immoral con- 
duct or lack of scholarship, or lack of 
teaching efficiency on the part of the 
holder thereof. Such revocation shall be 
subject to appeal to the superintendent 
of public instruction. 

(j) Enforcement of school and child 
labor laws and regulations. He shall en- 
force within the county, the school laws 
of the state, the laws regarding child 
labor, and the laws regarding compulsory 
attendance at school. He shall also en- 
force the rules and regulations of the 
State Board of Education and of the 
Board of Directors of the County School 
District and of each County High School 



Committee and each Union High School 
Committee. 

(k). Supervision of fines paid into school 
funds. It shall be his duty to enforce the 
payment into the county school fund of 
all fines, penalties and forfeitures which 
are by law to be so paid. 

(1) Apportionment of school fund. He 
shall apportion all school funds in accord- 
ance with the provisions of this act. He 
shall certify each apportionment promptly 
to the county treasurer, and shall also 
notify the secretary of each district of 
the amount placed to the credit of his 
district. 

(m) Approval of surety bonds of dis- 
trict treasurers and secretaries. His ap- 
proval shall be necessary for the accept- 
ance of the surety bonds of the secretary 
and the treasurer of each school district. 

(n) Certification of school budgets. He 
shall receive budgets and estimates of 
sums needed for the support of schools 
made by boards of directors or others hav- 
ing such power and shall certify the same 
to the Board of County Commissioners as 
a basis for the levying of taxes for school 
and library purposes. 

(o) Requiring of reports. He shall re- 
quire proper reports from the secretaries 
of school districts ; from attendance offi 
cers; from teachers, supervisors, princi- 
pals, sperintendents ; and from county 
librarians. 

The county superintendent shall have 
power, and is hereby authorized, to ad- 
minister oaths and affirmations to school 
directors, teachers and all other persons 
in official matters relating to schools; 
but shall receive no fee for so doing. 

(p) Records and reports. He shall keep 
a record of all his official acts; of the 
books and other material furnished the 
several districts by the state or county; 
of the apportionment of school funds; of 
the boundaries of school districts and the 
location of schools; and of other matters 
required by law to be recorded. 



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He shall prepare or have prepared a 
map of his county showing the school dis- 
tricts, the location of schools and other 
items of educational interest. 

The records in his office shall be open 
for inspection by any citizen of the county 
and by the State Board of Education or 
any representative or member thereof. 

He shall make such reports to the su- 
perintendent of public instruction as are 
required by law or as directed by the State 
Board of Education. 

(q) Hearing of appeals. He shall have 
power to hear and decide appeals from 
Boards of Directors. In connection with 
the hearing of said appeals he may con- 
duct the hearings, subpoena witnesses, ad- 
minister oaths or affirmations, and exam- 
ine witnesses. Attendance at such hear- 
ings upon subpoena shall be enforced by 
the courts and the proper penalty imposed 
for failure to obey subpoena. 

His decision in such cases shall be sub- 
ject to appeal to the State Board of Edu- 
cation. 

(r) Calling of meetings. He shall have 
power to call meetings of members of 
boards of directors for the election of 
members of county and union high school 
committees or for the consideration of 
questions concerning the administration 
and management of the schools. He may 
also arrange for meetings of citizens of 
his county for educational purposes. 

(s) Oath and bond. 

Before entering upon the duties of his 
office, he shall take the oath prescribed by 
the constitution, and execute a bond pay- 
able to the people of the State of Colorado, 
with two or more sureties, to be approved 
by the Board of County Commissioners, in 
penalty of not less than two thousand dol- 
lars, to be increased at the discretion of 
said Board, conditioned upon the faithful 
performance of the duties of his office and 
the delivery of all moneys and property 
as such superintendent to his successor, 



which bond shall be filed in the office of 
the county clerk. 

Failure to qioalify — vacancy — ap- 
-pointment. Should the superintendent- 
elect fail to qualify as aforesaid, or 
should there occur a vacancy in said 
office, the Board of County Commission- 
ers shall at their next meeting after 
''>>such vacancy or failure to qualify oc- 
curs, appoint an eligible and suitable 
person, who shall qualify within ten 
days after his appointment, and who 
shall continue in office until the next 
general election thereafter. Should such 
appointee fail to qualify, as aforesaid, 
another appointment shall be made in 
the same manner, until the vacancy 
shall be filled by appointment or elec- 
tion. (R. S. 5878.) 

(t) General. And in general he shall 
have such other powers and perform such 
other duties, not inconsistent with ex- 
isting law, as may be necessary for the 
efficient discharge of the duties of his of- 
fice. 

Section 2. Classification of counties to 
regulate salaries of County Superin- 
tendents. 

For the purpose of regulating the com- 
pensation of the county superintendents 
of schools, the counties of the State are 
divided into seven classes, as follows : 

First class : El Paso, Las Animas, Pu- 
eblo, and Weld; second class: Boulder, 
Fremont, Garfield, Larimer and Mesa ; 
third class: Adams, Chaffee, Delta, Gun- 
nison, Huerfano, Logan, Montrose, Mor- 
gan, Otero, Prowers and Routt; fourth 
class : Alamosa, Arapahoe, Bent, Chey- 
enne, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Douglas, 
Eagle, Elbert, Kit Carson, Washington, 
Yuma, Gilpin, Jefferson, Phillips, Ouray, 
Lake, Lincoln, Teller, Rio Grande, Park, 
Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Saguache and San 
Miguel ; fifth class : Archuleta, Clear 
Creek, Baca, Custer, City and County of 
Denver, Grand, Jackson, Kiowa, La Plata, 



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Moffat, Montezuma, Sedgwick and Sum- 
mit ; sixth class : Mineral and San Juan ; 
seventh class : Dolores and Hinsdale. 

Salaries: First class, $2,800; second 
class, $2,000; third class, $1,500; fourth 
class, $1,100; fifth class, $900; sixth class, 
$500 ; seventh class, $100. > 

The Board of County Commissioners 
shall also allow to the county superi&»»« 
tendent mileage not to exceed ten cents 
per mile for the distance necessarily and 
actually traveled in the performance of 
duty, not to exceed an aggregate of two 
hundred dollars per annum. 

Section 3. Office at county seat. 

The County Commissioners shall pro- 
vide the county superintendent with a 
suitable office at the county seat, and all 
necessary blank books, stationery, post- 
age, expressage and other expenses of his 
office, not otherwise provided for, which 
expenses shall be paid from the general 
county fund. He shall keep his office open 
for the transaction of official business such 
days each week as the duties of the office 
may require. 

May appoint deputy — cor}ipensation. If 
for any cause the superintendent is tenable 
to attend to the duties of his office, he may 
appoint a deputy, who shall take the usual 
oath or affirmation of office, and who may 
exercise all the functions of county superin 
tendent, hut such deputy shall draw no 
salary from the public fund; provided, that 
the superintendent may receive a per diem 
for the services of such deputy. (R. S. 
5879.) 

Section 90 {R. S. 2580 of 1908), Anno- 
tated School Laws of 1916, page 58, has 
reference to power of county officers to 
employ deputies and assistants. 

APPEALS 

From district board to cozinty super- 
intendent. Any persons a§ grieved by 
any decision or order of the District 
Board of Directors, in matter of laiv or 



fact, may, ivitTiin thirty days after the 
rendition of such decision, or malcin§ 
of such order, appeal therefrom to the 
county superintendent o fthe proper 
county. — (R. S. 6000.) 

Affidavit. The basis of the proceed- 
ing shall be an affidavit filed by 
the party a§§rieved, with the county su- 
perintendent, within the time for talcing 
the appeal. (R. S. 6001.) 

Contents of affidavit. The affidavit 
shall set forth the errors complained of 
in a plain and concise manner. (R. S. 
6002.) 

Superintendent notify secretary — 
transcript. The county superintendent 
shall, ivithin five days after the filing 
of such affidavit in his office, noti- 
fy the secretary of the proper district, 
in writing, of the taking of such ap- 
peal, and the latter shall, within ten 
days after bein£ thus notified, file in 
the office of the county superintendent a 
complete transcript of the record and 
proceedings relating to the decision com- 
plained of, which shall be certified to 
be correct by the secretary. (R. S. 6003.) 

J^otice to parties. After the filing 
of the transcript, aforesaid, in his 
office, he shall notify, in writing, all 
persons adversely interested, of the tUne 
and place where the matter of the ap- 
peal will be heard by him. (R. S. 6004- ) 



Hearing appeal — oaths. At the tiine 
thus fixed for hearing, he shall hear 
testimony for either party, and for 
that purpose inay administer oaths, 
if necessary, and he shall mahe such 
decision as may be just and equitable, 
which shall be final, unless appealed 
from, as hereinafter provided. (R. S. 
6005). 

Appeal from county superintendent to 
State Board of Education.' Any per- 
son or district board a§^rieved by any 
decision or order of the county super- 



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intendent in a matter of law or fact, 
may, within thirty days after the ren- 
dition of such decision or making of 
such order, appeal therefrom to the 
State Board of Education, in the same 
manner as provided in this act for talc- 
ing appeal from the District Board to 
the county superintendent as nearly as 
applicable. In case of an appeal, ivhere 
a trial has been had before the county 
superintendent and a decision rendered, 
the State Board of Education shall ex- 
amine a transcript of such proceeding 
and render a decision therefroin, but no 
new testimony shall be admitted. In 
other cases of appeal the said board may 
require of the parties such papers and 
documents as may be thought necessary, 
they may issue subpoenas and coinpel 
witnesses to attend and testify, and the 
said board shall have the power to ad- 
minister oaths through its pj^esident. 
The decision of said board, or a major- 
ity of said board, shall be rendered by 
the president, and such decision, ivhen 
made, shall be final. When an appli- 
cant for a certificate at a regular exam- 
ination shall feel a^^rieved at the de- 
cision of the county superintendent, and 
shall appeal to the State Board of Eduy- 
cation, the questions used and answers 
^iven shall be examined by the said 
board, and if the decision of the county 
superintendent be reversed, the State 
Board of Education shall issue to the 
appellant a certificate of such grade as 
the answers shall warrant; provided, 
that a good moral character and suc- 
cess as a teacher be shown. (R. S. 6006.) 

Jfo judgment for money. Nothing 
in this act shall be so construed 
as to authorize either the county su- 
perintendent or the State Board to ren- 
der a judgment for money; neither shall 
they be allowed any other compensation 
than is allowed by law. All necessary 
postage must first be paid by the party 
aggrieved. (R. S. 6007.) 



ARTICLE V. 
DISTRICT ORGANIZATION. 

Section 1. Definition and corporate 
powers of school districts. 

Except as provided in this act, all school 
districts now formed, or which may here- 
after be formed unless abolished by duly 
constituted authority, which shall continue 
to exercise, undisputed, the prerogatives, 
and enjoy the privileges, subject to all the 
provisions of this act, of a legally formed 
district, for the period of one year next 
succeeding the election of its officers, shall 
be deemed to be a legally formed district, 
and its legality shall not thereafter be 
questioned. 

Each regularly organized school district 
heretofore formed, or that may be formed, 
as provided by law, is hereby declared to 
be a body corporate, by the name and style 

of ' ' School District No , in the County 

of , and State of 

Colorado," and in that name may hold 
property and be a party to suits and con- 
tracts, the same as municipal corporations 
in this state. 

Section 2. Classification. 

The school districts of the state shall con- 
sist of seven classes as follows : 

(a) First Class Districts, which shall con- 
sist of all school districts having, according 
to the last school census before the adoption 
of this act, a school population of one thou- 
sand (1,000) or more, and of such other 
districts as may be classified as first class 
districts by action of the State Board of 
Education, under the general regulations 
thereof. 

(b) Second Class Districts, which shall 
consist of all school districts having, accord- 
ing to the last school census before the 
adoption of this act, a school population of 
three hundred fifty (350) but less than one 
thousand (1,000). When school districts 
of the second class shall attain a school pop- 
ulation of one thousand or more, as shown 
by the school census, there shall be elected 



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at the next regular election thereafter, one 
director for three years, and one director 
for four years, and one director for five 
years, and annually thereafter one director 
for five years, as provided for in districts 
of the first class ; and the persons so elected, 
together with the directors whose official 
terms have not expired, shall constitute the 
new board, which board shall enter upon 
the duties prescribed by law for boards of 
directors of districts of the first class. 

(c) County School Districts y each of 
which shall include all territory within a 
county not included in any first or second 
class district, all such territory in each 
county to constitute a single county school 
district. 

(d) Local School Districts. From and 
after the time this act goes into effect, each 
school district of the third class as existing 
up to that time shall be known as a 
Local School District, and the directors of 
such third class district shall by this act 
become the directors of the local district 
corresponding thereto; and the records of 
the third class district shall thereupon be 
deemed records of said local district. Di- 
rectors for local districts shall thereafter be 
elected, and shall call regular and special 
meetings, and shall perform such other 
duties as are requifed under the provisions 
of this act or by the County School District 
Board. A director of the County School 
District Board may serve as director of a 
local school district. The secretary of each 
local school district shall prepare and 
promptly forward to the secretary of the 
County School District Board all necessary 
reports. He shall have the custody of the 
school property, subject to the control and 
direction of the County School District 
Board, and he shall perform such other 
duties as the County School District Board 
may impose. 

Each local school district shall exist for 
the purpose of preserving and enforcing 
all rights and liabilities arising from any 
legal indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, 



which may be outstanding against the orig- 
inal district at the time this act goes into 
effect, or arising from the existence of any 
union or other high school district of which 
said local district may be a part, for the 
purpose of serving as a taxing district in 
case such local district desires to make spe- 
cial levies, and for the purpose of voting 
bonds as provided in Article X, Section 5, 
sub-section (b). 

The County School District Board shall, 
for election and other purposes, distribute 
and attach all unorganized territory of 
the county school district to one or more 
existing local school districts as it shall 
deem best, or it may form any part of such 
territory into a separate local district. 

(e) Joi7it School Districts, which shall 
consist of territory lying in more than one 
county which may be regularly organized 
into a local school district or into a district 
of the first or second class as defined above. 

(f ) County High School Districts, which 
shall comprise, subject to all the provisions 
of this act, county high school districts in 
existence when this act shall go into effect, 
and such county high school districts as 
may be organized thereafter, as provided 
by this act. 

(g) Union High School Districts, which 
shall include all such existing Union High 
School Districts as shall continue to exist 
after this act shall take effect. 

From and after the taking effect of this 
act the basis for future change in the classi- 
fication of any school district shall be 
the number of teachers regularly employed 
in said district and the assessed valuation 
of taxable property in said district. The 
State Board of Education shall make and 
publish general rules for the classification 
of school districts under the provisions of 
this act and shall have power to enforce 
such rules. 

Section 3. Organization of new districts. 

(a) Out of old districts or unorganized 
territory. For the purpose of organizing 
a new local school district out of a portion 



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of one or more old districts, the parents of 
at least ten children of school age residing 
within the limits of the proposed new dis- 
trict, shall petition the County School Dis- 
trict Board, in writing, which petition shall 
describe the boundaries of the proposed dis- 
trict, and the names of all children of school 
age residing in such proposed district at the 
date of said petition. If, in the judgment 
of the county school district board, the 
school interests of the districts affected by 
the proposed change will be best promoted 
by said change, the county superintendent 
of schools shall direct some one of the peti- 
tioners who is a legal voter, to notify each 
elector residing within the district so to be 
formed, by personal service as far as con- 
venient, and to post a notice in three public 
places in said new district, that such peti- 
tion has been made, and that a meeting will 
be held, naming the time and place for such 
meeting, to determine the question of the 
proposed organization. 

People living upon unorganized territory 
may organize themselves into a local school 
district at any time, without a petition, if 
a majority of the legal voters residing with- 
in the proposed district shall so decide at a 
meeting, of which reasonable notice has 
been given to all resident voters, and which 
meeting shall be conducted as is provided 
by law for the organization of new dis- 
tricts; provided, that, in addition to the 
copy of the proceedings now required by 
law, the secretary shall also transmit to the 
county superintendent a certified list of all 
children of school age who are residents in 
good faith in said district at the date of the 
organization. 

(b) Method of organization. The quali- 
fied electors of such proposed new local 
school district when assembled in accord- 
ance with the notice above required, shall 
organize by electing a chairman and secre- 
tary. Every legally qualified elector, and 
none other, shall be entitled to vote at such 
meeting. After the organization of such 
meeting, as above mentioned, a vote shall 
be taken by ballot on the question whether 



or not the proposed district shall be organ- 
ized. Those in favor of organization shall 
vote "yes" and those opposed "no." If 
two-thirds of the legal voters so voting are 
found to be in favor of such organization, 
and not otherwise, the meeting shall pro- 
ceed to elect by ballot a board of directors 
of said district, who shall hold office until 
the ensuing regular election, as provided 
for in Article V, Section 5 of this act. 
The secretary of said meeting shall imme- 
diately transmit to the county superintend- 
ent a copy of the proceedings of the -meet- 
ing, upon receipt of which, if the proceed- 
ings are found to have been in accordance 
with law, the county superintendent shall 
establish and number such district and 
enter a record of the same and of the pro- 
ceedings of the meetings, as provided for in 
Article IV, Section 1, sub-section (p) of 
this act ; provided, if such organization of a 
new district works great hardship to any 
head of a family, a statement of the facts 
may be submitted to the County School Dis- 
trict Board and if in their judgment, good 
cause be shown for the transfer, he may be 
transferred to another district, provided, 
further, that no district shall hereafter be 
divided for the purpose of forming a new 
district, unless it contains an area of more 
than nine square miles or has an assessed 
valuation of more than sixty thousand dol- 
lars and forty children of legal school age, 
nor shall a district be divided, if by so 
doing the remainder of the district shall 
be found to contain less than twenty per- 
sons of school age, and, when practicable, 
the district shall conform to government 
lines; provided, also, that no city or town 
shall hereafter be divided into two or more 
districts, nor shall any district of the first 
class be divided, except upon a vote of the 
electors of the district, submitted at an an- 
nual election, a majority of all the votes 
cast being in favor of such division. 
(c) Union of old districts. ' 
Two or more contiguous districts may be 
united into one district. For the purpose 
of effecting such union, each district shall, 



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at a special meeting legally called for the 
purpose, determine by ballot whether or 
not a majority of the legal voters assem- 
bled are in favor of such union. Those in 
favor will vote ''yes" and those opposed 
"no." If a majority of the voters present 
in each district vote in favor of a union, a 
union meeting shall be called by giving at 
least ten days ' public notice, at which meet- 
ing the organization shall be perfected by 
the election of officers and other necessary 
proceedings, in the same manner as pro- 
vided for the organization of districts in 
paragraph (b) next above. Upon receiving 
notice from the county superintendent of 
any union or consolidation of districts it 
shall be the duty of the county treasurer 
to transfer all funds belonging to said dis- 
tricts to the credit of the new district thus 
formed. Provided, that when one or more' 
of the districts so united, previous to the 
time of being united, shall have incurred a 
bonded indebtedness, such districts alone 
shall be subject to the same, and that none 
of the other districts uniting under this act 
shall be held in any manner subject to such 
indebtedness or interest thereon. A por- 
tion of unorganized territory may be an- 
nexed to a school district, or a portion of 
one district may be detached from said dis- 
trict and annexed to a contiguous district, 
by the county superintendent, upon peti- 
tion, in either case, of a majority of the 
legal voters resident within the territory 
to be so annexed, subject, always, to the 
limitation of paragraph (b) next above. 

Provided, that when there are children 
of school age, residing upon unorganized 
territory, and a majority of the legal voters 
of such territory shall neglect or refuse, 
after being given thirty days' notice in 
writing by the county superintendent, to 
petition to be annexed to a contiguous dis- 
trict, the county superintendent may at- 
tach such unorganized territory to a con- 
tiguous school district in the same manner 
as though such petition had been presented 
to him. 

All unorganized territory shall be part, 



for taxation and for bonding purposes, of 
the County School District in the county in 
which it is situated, and the schooling, of 
all children residing on such unorganized 
territory shall be provided for by the 
board of directors of such district. 

(d) Joint districts. 

A joint school district may be formed 
from territory belonging to two or more 
contiguous counties. For the purpose of 
organizing a joint district, the same pre- 
liminary steps shall be taken, and the same 
course pursued, as is provided for the or- 
ganization of other districts, in paragraphs 
(a) and (b) next above. Such district 
shall be designated as "Joint District No. 

.... of the counties of 

and , " and shall be 

so numbered that it shall have the same 
number in all the counties from which it is 
formed. The petition required by para- 
graph (a) next above shall be made to each 
county superintendent interested, who 
shall unite in forming such districts; pro- 
vided, that the school census, the record of 
attendance at school, the assessing of prop 
erty, the collection of taxes, and all other 
acts which from their nature should be sep- 
arately kept or done, shall be kept and 
done, and the reports thereof made, as if 
each portion of said joint district belong- 
ing to each county were an entire district 
in the respective counties. The teachers of 
such joint district shall have a certificate 
from the superintendent of the county in 
which the school house is located, and the 
county superintendent of the same county 
shall exercise supervision over the school 
subject to the limitations defined in the 
powers and duties of county superintend- 
ents. No joint district shall be annulled 
except by the consent of the county super- 
intendent of the counties in which such dis- 
trict is located ; provided, that when any 
joint district desires to be annulled for the 
purpose of forming separate districts, it 
shall require a majority vote of the electors 
constituting such joint district, at a meet- 
ing called for such purpose. 



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(e) Apportionment of school funds to 
new district. 

No new district, formed as provided in 
this section, shall be entitled to any portion 
of the public school money until a school 
has actually commenced therein, and unless 
within six months from the establishment 
of such district a school be opened and 
maintained, as required by law, the action 
making such district shall be void, and all 
actions had by such district, acting as a 
body corporate, shall cease and determine 
and all taxes which may have been levied 
in the old district or districts out of which 
the new one was formed, shall be valid and 
binding upon the real and personal prop- 
erty of the new district, the same as if said 
new district had never been organized ; pro- 
vided, that the county school district board 
may, for good cause, extend the said six 
months to eight months ; said time of limita- 
tion shall begin to run from the time of the 
meeting at which it was voted to organize 
the district; whenever any district shall, 
for the period of one year, fail to keep up 
its organization of officers, and to make 
annual report as required by law, the coun- 
ty superintendent may declare such dis 
trict annulled, and annex its territory to 
an adjoining district or districts. 

Section 4. Boards of Directors, provision 
for election, term, vacancies. 

(a) Provision for — qualifications. The 
general administration of the schools of 
each district shall be in the hands of a 
Board of School Directors who shall be 
elected as indicated herein and shall hold 
office until their successors are elected and 
have qualified. 

Each member of a board of school direc- 
tors shall be a qualified elector of the school 
district in which he is elected and shall 
qualify by filing his oath of office with the 
county superintendent of schools. 

(b) In First Class Districts. In school 
districts of the first class the Board of 
School Directors shall consist of five mem- 
bers who shall be elected from the district 



at large, one each year for a term of five 
years. Vacancies occurring at irregular 
times from any cause shall be filled by ma- 
jority vote of the remaining members of 
the board. In case no choice is made within 
thirty days from the date the vacancy oc- 
curs the secretary shall notify the superin- 
tendent of public instruction who shall im- 
mediately fill the vacancy by appointment. 
All such appointments shall be* for the 
unexpired portion of the term during which 
the vacancy occurred. At the regular 
school election in May, 1917, provided this 
act shall be in effect at that time, there shall 
be elected one director for five years, whose 
term shall expire in 1922. There shall be 
no election for director in 1918 or in 1920. 
At the regular school election in May, 1919, 
there shall be chosen two directors, one for 
four years and one for five years, whose 
terms shall expire in 1923 and 1924 re- 
spectively. At the regular school election 
in May, 1921, there shall be chosen two di- 
rectors, one for four years and one for five 
years, whose terms shall expire in 1925 and 
in 1926 respectively. At the regular school 
elections iu succeeding years one director 
shall be elected each year to serve for five 
years. 

(c) In Second Class and Local School Dis- 
tricts. In school districts of the second 
class and in local school districts the Board 
of School Directors shall consist of three 
members, a president, a secretary and a 
treasurer, one of whom shall be elected an- 
nually for a term of three years on the first 
Monday in May, and notice for such elec- 
tion when posted shall specify the name of 
the office to be filled and the length of term ; 
provided, that at all school elections held 
after the passage of this act, the length of 
term shall be so specified that the term of 
the president shall expire in 1918 and every 
three years thereafter ; that of the treasurer 
shall expire in 1919 and every three years 
thereafter; and that of the secretary shall 
expire in 1920 and every three years there- 
after. Vacancies in the membership of 
boards of directors of local school districts 



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and second class districts occurring from 
any cause except expiration of term, shall 
be filled by appointment by the county 
superintendent of schools, and all such ap- 
pointments shall be for the unexpired por- 
tion of the term during which the vacancy 
occurred. 

(d) In County School Districts. In 
county school districts the Board of School 
Directors shall consist of five members who 
shall be elected by the vote of the qualified 
electors of the entire district, one each year 
for a term of five years. One member shall 
be elected from each of the electoral divi- 
sions of the district. These divisions shall be 
determined by the county superintendent of 
schools for the first election following the 
adoption of this act and thereafter the 
boundaries of such divisions shall be deter- 
mined by the Board of School Directors of 
the district. The divisions shall be so deter- 
mined as to give representation as nearly 
as possible to all parts of the district, and 
at the first election hereunder of members 
of said Board of School Directors the bal- 
lots shall specify for which term each can- 
didate is nominated. 

At the next regular election following 
the adoption of this act five members of the 
board shall be elected to serve for one, two, 
three, four, and five year terms respective- 
ly, the county superintendent having indi- 
cated in connection with his determination 
of electoral divisions which division shall 
be represented for each of the respective 
terms. Annually thereafter one member 
shall be elected for a five-year term to suc- 
ceed the member whose term expires. 

Vacancies occurring at irregular times 
from any cause shall be filled by majority 
vote of the remaining members of the 
board. In case no choice is made within 
thirty days from the date the vacancy oc- 
curs the secretary shall notify the superin- 
tendent of public instruction who shall im- 
mediately fill the vacancy by appointment. 
All such appointments shall be for the un- 
expired portion of the term during which 
the vacancy occurred. 



(e) Qualifying and beginning term of 
office — Absence from district. The direc- 
tors elected in each school district shall 
each, within twenty days after his election, 
appear before some officer authorized to 
administer oaths, and take oath that he 
will faithfully perform the duties of 
his office required by law, which oath 
shall be filed with the county super- 
intendent; and, in case of failure so to 
qualify, his office shall be deemed vacant, 
and the county superintendent shall ap- 
point a suitable person, who shall qualify 
immediately, provided, that in districts of 
the first class vacancies occurring from 
failure of elected persons to qualify shall 
be filled until the next annual election by 
the Board of Directors of such districts. 
The oath of office required in this section 
may be administered by the president of 
any school board, or by the county super- 
intendent. The directors-elect shall take 
office immediately after qualifying as afore- 
said. 

Absence from the district of any school 
director, when prolonged beyond thirty 
consecutive days, may be held to work a 
vacancy in said office which may be filled 
according to law, provided, that a leave of 
absence in excess of thirty days may be per- 
mitted by the unanimous consent of the re- 
maining members of the board of directors 
recorded in the minutes. 

(f) Organization and meetings. In first 
class districts and in county school districts 
the board of directors chosen at the first 
election following the adoption of this act 
shall organize by electing a president who 
shall be a member of the board and a secre- 
tary and a treasurer both or either of whom 
may or may not be members of the board, 
and a superintendent of schools who shall 
not be a member of the board and who in 
the case of county school districts shall be 
the regularly elected county superintend- 
ent of schools. The secretary and treas- 
urer, if members of the board, shall hold of- 
fice for two years or until their term of 
office as members of the board has expired. 



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If not members of the board their term of 
office shall be at the discretion of the board. 

Regular meetings of the board of direc- 
tors in each district of whatever kind shall 
be held on the last Saturday of March, 
June, September and December. Other 
meetings, regular, special, or adjourned 
may be held from time to time according 
as the board may choose. 

The election of teachers, particularly 
with reference to reappointments, shall be 
a special order of business for the March 
meeting and each board may adopt for its 
own government such rules and regulations, 
not inconsistent wdth law, as it may see fit. 

(g) Expenses of directors of County 
School District. Each director of the 
County School District Board shall receive 
as sole compensation his traveling and other 
expenses actually and necessarily incurred 
in the performance of his duties ; provided, 
that the aggregate expenses of the directors 
shall not exceed five hundred dollars ($500) 
in any one board year, which shall com- 
mence on the third Monday in May. Claims 
for such expenses shall be itemized and shall 
be audited by the county superintendent of 
schools before being allowed by the board. 
Other claims shall be audited and allowed 
by the board. The books and accounts of 
the board shall be examined and audited 
at least once a year under the direction of 
the county superintendent. 

(h) Duties of officers. The president 
shall preside at all meetings of the board, 
when present. If the president is absent 
the remaining members may designate one 
of their number to act as chairman. The 
president shall sign all orders or warrants 
issued for the payment of money from the 
funds of the district. He shall appear in 
behalf of his district in all suits brought by 
or against the same, but when he is indi- 
vidually interested, this duty shall be per- 
formed by the secretary. 

The secretary in districts of the first and 
second classes, in county school districts, 
shall perform the following duties: 



Before entering upon the duties of his 
office, he shall execute a bond, with two 
sureties, in the penal sum of five hundred 
dollars, conditioned upon the faithful dis- 
charge of his official duties and the delivery 
of all district property pertaining to his 
office over to his successor, within ten days 
after a demand is made for the same by a 
qualified successor, said bond to be ap- 
proved by and filed with the county super- 
intendent. 

He shall record all proceedings of the 
board and of district meetings in a book, or 
books, kept for that purpose ; shall prreserve 
copies of all reports made to the state or 
coanty superintendent ; shall file all papers 
transmitted to him by other school officers 
pertaining to the business of the district; 
shall draw and countersign all warrants or 
orders issued by the board; shall keep a 
register or stub of all orders drawn, show- 
ing the number of the order, date, amount, 
and in whose favor and for what purpose 
drawn. He shall be the accountant and 
bookkeeper and the auditor of the board of 
directors and shall as such perform all du- 
ties assigned him by such board, not incon- 
sistent with law or the provisions of this 
act. 

Immediately after the election of one or 
more directors or members of the county 
high school committee, he shall transmit to 
the county superintendent a statement giv- 
ing the name and post office address of the 
president, the secretary and the treasurer, 
respectively, of the Board of Directors. 

He shall keep an accurate account of the 
expenses incurred by the district, and shall 
present the same to the board whenever 
called upon. 

He shall give the required notice of all 
regular and special meetings, as herein au- 
thorized. 

On or before the first day of August of 
each year he shall make out and file in the 
office of the county superintendent, a report 
of the affairs of his district. Said report 
shall be made upon blanks prepared by the 
superintendent of public instruction con- 



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taining such items of information as the 
said superintendent shall require. Should 
the secretary fail to file his report, as above 
directed, he shall forfeit the sum of one 
hundred dollars, and make good all loss re- 
sulting to the district from such failure. 

He shall exhibit the quarterly report re- 
ceived from the county treasurer to the 
board at its first regular meeting after the 
receipt of said report. The board shall 
examine said quarterly report and can- 
celled orders and instruct the secretary to 
report the correctness or incorrectness 
upon the blank furnished by the county 
treasurer. 

He and his successors shall keep on file 
for a term of six years quarterly reports 
and cancelled orders received from county 
treasurers and at the end of said period 
shall destroy by fire all cancelled orders, 
filing the quarterly reports for such period 
for future reference. 

He shall render a statement of the con- 
dition of the finances, as shown by the 
books, at any time when required by the 
school board, and his books shall always be 
open for inspection. 

Whenever a district secretary fails to 
file his annual report with the county su- 
perintendent, thereby rendering it impos- 
sible for the said superintendent to appor- 
tion to such district any part of the public 
school income fund for the ensuing year, 
if it can be shown to the satisfaction of the 
superintendent of public instruction that 
such report was prepared and reasonable 
diligence used to place the same in the 
hands of the county superintendent, and 
that such report failed to reach said super- 
intendent by reason of some accident or 
extraordinary occurrence; and if it be 
further shown that the public school was 
maintained in such district for not less than 
the minimum time required by the provi- 
sions of this act; and if it be also shown 
that duplicates of the missing papers have 
been placed in the hands of the county 
superintendent, or in his office, then the 



superintendent of public instruction shall 
direct the county superintendent to appor- 
tion to such district its proper share of the 
public school income fund distributed dur 
ing the remainder of the year, as provided 
elsewhere herein. 

And he shall perform any other duties 
connected with his office not herein enumer- 
ated. 

The treasurer, in districts of the first and 
second classes and in county school dis- 
tricts, shall perform the following duties: 

If the amount of money estimated as 
likely to come into the hands of the treas- 
urer, in the discharge of his official duties, 
exceeds twenty dollars at any one time, he 
shall be required to give bond in double the 
amount of money estimated as likely to 
come into his hands, said bond to be ap- 
proved by, and filed with, the county super- 
intendent. Provided, that any district 
treasurer, who shall refuse to give bond as 
above, when required to do so by the other 
members of the board, shall be disqualified 
from receiving any money on district ac- 
count until a satisfactory bond is executed. 

He shall publish, semi-annually, within 
twenty days after the close of business June 
30th and December 31st of each year, in 
some newspaper of general circulation, 
published within the county wherein such 
district may be located, a complete and full 
report of the said district, showing all re- 
ceipts and disbursements from each and 
every fund, so itemized as to give the gen- 
eral public definite information as to the 
financial condition of the district. 

He shall countersign all warrants drawn 
by the president and secretary on the coun- 
ty treasurer, in favor of parties to whom 
the district has become lawfully indebted, 
and shall keep an account of the same. He 
shall take charge of all moneys received by 
him on account of the district from the 
county treasurer or other sources and pay 
out the same as herein provided. 

He shall render a statement of the fi- 
nances of the district, as shown by the 
records of his office at the close of each 



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school year, and at any other time when re- 
quired by the board. 

For a failure to perform any of the duties 
of his office when directed by the board, or 
for refusing or neglecting to deliver to his 
legally qualified successor all money, books, 
or other district property in his possession 
or care, within ten days after the same shall 
have been demanded by such successor, he 
shall be liable on his bond, and shall make 
good any loss resulting to the district from 
such failure or neglect. 

The superintendent of schools shall be 
the executive officer of the board and 
exercise immediate supervision over the 
schools. He shall be the means of commun- 
ication between the board and its employes 
excepting the secretary and treasurer; he 
shall have power, subject to the regulations 
of the board, to nominate for appointment 
by the board, all school principals, super- 
visors, teachers, janitors, and other em- 
ployes except the secretary and the treas- 
urer, and to assign such employes to their 
respective positions and duties ; in like man- 
ner the superintendent shall have power to 
suspend principals, supervisors, teachers, 
janitors and other employes, pending final 
action by the board; he shall reconunend 
to the board for its approval and adoption 
courses of study and text-books; he shall 
have charge under the direction of the 
board and subject to existing law and 
the regulations of the State Board of Edu- 
cation, of the examination of candidates for 
teachers ' certificates ; and in general shall 
perform such duties and exercise such 
powers, not inconsistent with law or the 
regulations of the State Board of Educa- 
tion, as are necessary for the efficient su- 
pervision of the schools of his district. 

Section 5. Elections. 

(a) Notice of — time. The regular' elec- 
tion for electing members of school boards 
or boards of education shall be held annu- 
ally in each school district of the state on 
the first Monday in May. 

The secretary of each school board shall 



cause written or printed notices to be 
posted, specifying the day and place or 
places of such election, the boundaries of 
election precincts, if any, and the time 
during which the ballot box or boxes shall 
be kept open, not less, however, than three 
hours in districts of the second class, in 
local districts and in county school dis- 
tricts. In districts of the first class the 
ballot box or boxes shall be kept open 
from seven o'clock a. m. to seven o'clock 
p. m. Said notices shall be posted in at 
least three public places in the district, 
and additionally at each school house, 
at least six days prior to the time of elec- 
tion; and in districts of the first class, 
said notice shall be published weekly for 
the four weeks preceding such election, in 
some newspaper published in the district, 
and if there be no paper published in such 
district, then in a paper published in an 
adjoining district. If the secretary shall 
fail to give such notice, then any two 
legal voters residing in the district may 
give such notice over their names, and 
such election may be held after the day 
fixed by this act for such election. 

(b) Electors. Every elector qualified to 
vote at a general election, having been a 
resident of the school district for thirty 
days next preceding the date of election, 
shall be entitled to vote at school elec- 
tions; provided, that in districts having a 
school population of more than three thou- 
sand such elector has been first duly regis- 
tered as hereinafter provided in this act. 
And provided, further, that any person 
possessing all the qualifications of an 
elector in any school district, whose name 
appears on the registration list made ac- 
cording to law for the general election of 
county officers in the county in which the 
school election precinct in which such per- 
son resides is situated next preceding any 
school election in such district shall be en- 
titled to vote at such school election. 

In school districts having a school pop- 
ulation of more than three thousand, any 



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person possessing all the qualifications of 
an elector, whose name does not appear 
upon the registration list of the voting 
precinct, in which he resides, made ac- 
cording to law for the next preceding 
general election of county officers in his 
county, may not less than thirty days, 
nor more than sixty days prior to the time 
of any school election, appear before the 
county clerk of the county in which he 
resides, or if the district is not located in 
the county seat, appear before the secre- 
tary of the school board of the district in 
which he resides, and, upon making oath 
before said county clerk or district secre- 
tary of his qualifications as an elector, and 
answering to said county clerk or district 
secretary all the questions required by 
law to be answered for registration for a 
general election, cause his name to be 
placed upon the registration list for such 
school election by said county clerk or 
district secretary. 

The county clerk of each said county 
wherein there shall be one or more school 
districts having a school population of 
more than three thousand shall, prior to 
the time of holding any election in said 
school district, make a full and complete 
copy of the registration list of the quali- 
fied voters of each school election pre- 
cinct as the same shall be designated and 
bounded by the Board of Directors or 
the Board of Education of any such school 
district having a school population of 
more than three thousand, which list shall 
contain the names of the qualified voters 
according to the registration list made 
for the next preceding general election of 
county officers, together with such 
changes, additions and amendments as 
shall have been made by said county clerk 
in making new registrations as provided 
by law, and shall certify the same under 
his hand and official seal, and shall de- 
liver the same to the secretary of such 
school district not less than five days 



prior to the time of the holding of an 
election in said school district. 

The said school district shall pay to the 
county clerk as his fee for making and 
certifying said registration lists the sum 
of one cent for each and every name 
therein contained or added thereto by 
new registration. 

(c) Precincts. In districts of the first 
and second classes and in county school 
districts the Board of Directors or Board 
of Education may, not less than sixty days 
prior to the time of the holding of any 
school election, divide the district into 
such number of election precincts as they 
shall see fit and fix the boundaries of the 
same, and in each case they shall desig- 
nate one voting place in each of said 
election precincts. Immediately upon so 
dividing said districts the secretary of 
any school district having a school popu- 
lation of more than three thousand shall 
certify to the county clerk of the county 
in which the said district is situated the 
limits and boundaries of said election pre- 
cinct. 

(d) Judges. Whenever the Board of 
Directors or Board of Education shall di- 
vide a district into election precincts they 
shall, prior to the time of holding such 
election, appoint three judges for each 
of the said election precincts, each of 
whom shall be a qualified elector of the 
school election precinct for which he is 
appointed and shall not be a member of 
the Board of Directors of such district. 

In local school districts the members of 
the Board of School Directors shall act 
as judges. In case one or more judges 
of election shall be absent at the time and 
place stated in the notice for the opening 
of the polls and ballot boxes, one or more 
duly qualified electors shall be chosen by 
viva voce vote of the qualified electors pres- 
ent to fill the vacancy or vacancies. 

The following oath shall be taken and 
subscribed by each of the judges of elec- 
tion before any votes shall be received in 



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districts of the first class. Any of the 
judges of election shall have the power 
and authority to administer said oath : 

''I, , do solemnly swear 

(or affirm) that I will perform the duties 
of judge of election according to law, and 
to the best of my ability ; that I will studi- 
ously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit 
and abuse in conducting same ; that I will 
not try to ascertain how any electors shall 
vote, and if in the discharge of my duties 
such knowledge comes to me, I will not 
disclose the same unless required to do so 
in some court of justice, so help me God. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 
day of , A. D 



Judge.'' 
(e) Ballot boxes and poll books. Prior 
to the time of any school election, the sec- 
retary of each school district of the first 
class shall provide ballot boxes and cause 
to be prepared two duplicate poll-books 
for each voting place in his district. On 
the first page of said poll-books shall be 
printed the blank form of oath, to be taken 
by each of the judges of election, as indi- 
cated in ^'d'' next above. 

The next succeeding several pages of 
said poll-books shall contain in one column 
a series of numbers beginning with the 
number one and in an adjoining column, 
spaces opposite said numbers, in which a 
judge of election shall write the names 
and addresses of the electors as they re- 
spectively present themselves for voting. 
On one of the latter pages of said poll- 
books shall be printed a blank form of 
certificate of return, substantially as fol- 
lows: 

''To the Board of Education of School 

District No in the County of 

in the State of Colorado : 

At an election held at 

in election precinct No of said 

school district on the day of 

, A. D , the following 



named persons received respectively the 
number of votes placed opposite their 
names for the office of director or member 
of the Board of Education of said school 
district, to wit : 

A. B. received votes 

C. D. received votes 

E. F. received votes 

G. H. received votes 

The total number of votes cast was 

The number of excess ballots was 

The number of unused ballots was 

J. K. 
0. P. 
L. M. 

Judges." 

(f) Candidates — ^Ballots. In districts 
of the first and second classes and in 
county school districts, the secretary of 
the district shall accept and file all writ- 
ten notices of the intention on the part of 
any person or persons to become a candi- 
date for the office of school director. Pro- 
vided, that such written notice is re- 
ceived not later than four o'clock p. m. 
on the eighth day preceding the date for 
the holding of the election of school di- 
rectors and, provided, further, that in 
districts of the first class the said candi- 
date, in addition to filing such written 
notice shall also file a certificate of nomi- 
nation signed by not less than fifty quali- 
fied electors of said district, which cer- 
tificate of nomination shall contain the 
name of the office for which such person 
is nominated, his name, post office ad- 
dress and residence, and if in a city, the 
street number of residence and place of 
business. The secretary of said school 
district shall, for five consecutive days . 
preceding the day of said election, publish 
in some daily newspaper published in said 
district, or when no daily newspaper is 
published in such district, then by posting 
a printed or written notice in not less 
than five public places in such district 
and at each school house in such district. 



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the names of all candidates who have been 
nominated as above provided. 

In districts of the first and second 
classes and in county school districts, the 
secretary shall have printed ballots pre- 
pared bearing the names of all candidates 
so nominated, which names shall be ar- 
ranged in alphabetical order, according to 
the surnames of the candidates ; and on 
the ballot shall be printed such words as 
will indicate the number of directors or 
members of the Board of Education to 
be elected. The ballot shall also contain 
blank spaces in which the voters may 
write the name of any person whom they 
may prefer for the office of school director 
if such name is not printed on the ballot, 
and the legality of ballots cast for any such 
person or persons shall not be prejudiced 
because said person or persons has not been 
nominated as hereinbefore provided. All 
such ballots shall be uniform in every 
respect and of sufficient length and width 
to allow all the names of the candidates 
to be printed in clear plain type, and so 
as to give each elector an opportunity to 
designate by a cross-mark (x) in a suffi- 
cient margin at the right of the name of 
each candidate, his choice of candidates. 
There shall be printed on the back of each 
ballot the following endorsement : 

''Official Ballot of School District No. 

, in the County of and 

State of Colorado, '* together with the 
date of the election and a facsimile of the 
signature of the secretary of the school 
district. 

In local school districts each voter shall 
prepare his own ballot by writing the 
name of the candidate or candidates for 
whom he wishes to vote on paper pro- 
vided for that purpose by the election 
officers. 

(g) Manner of voting. In school dis- 
tricts having a school population of more 
than three thousand, when any elector 
appears for voting he shall give his name 
and place of residence to one of the judges. 



If his name shall be found on the registra- 
tion list, and if the judges shall be satis- 
fied that he is a qualified elector, his name 
and address shall be entered by the judge 
of election having charge of the poll- 
books in the column prepared for that 
purpose. Provided that it shall be entered 
in each poll-book opposite the same num- 
ber. The other judge shall thereupon 
write on the back of a blank ballot with 
ink, or indelible pencil, the number oppo- 
site that elector ^s name in the poll-book, 
together with his (the Judge ^s) initials, 
and shall hand the ballot to the elector 
who shall retire with it within the en- 
closure and prepare it for casting by 
marking a cross (X) opposite the names 
of those candidates for whom he desires 
to vote, or by drawing a line or lines 
through the names of those candidates 
for whom he does not wish to vote or by 
otherwise indicating his choice. After 
having prepared his ballot, the elector 
shall return the same to the judge from 
whom he received it, so folded as to expose 
the number and initials written on the 
back thereof by the Judge, but not to dis- 
close the marks on the face thereof indi- 
cating the elector's vote. That judge 
shall examine the number and the initials 
on the back of said ballot, and if they 
indicate that it is the same one which was 
issued to that elector, the judge shall 
again write his initials on the back of 
the same, and return it to the elector, who 
shall deposit it in the ballot box. 

Any person offering to vote at any 
school election in any district may be chal- 
lenged by any legally qualified elector of 
the district and thereupon the judges of 
election or one of them may require him 
to answer, under oath, such questions 
touching his qualifications as a voter as 
they see fit. One of the judges shall ad- 
minister to him the oath, as follows : 

'*I do solemnly swear (or affirmi) that 
I am a citizen of the United States; that 
I have resided in this state for one year 



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immediately preceding this election; in 
this county ninety days, and in this school 
district thirty days. That I am twenty- 
one years of age and that I have not previ- 
ously voted at this election, so help me 
God." 

If the person so challenged shall refuse 
to make such oath or affirmation, his vote 
shall be rejected. Each candidate voted 
upon at any school election in any school 
district shall have the right to appoint in 
each school election precinct any person 
who is a qualified elector of such school 
district, to remain with the polling places 
during the casting and counting of votes 
and the declaration of the result thereof. 
Such watcher may also act as challenger 
when there is reason to believe that any per- 
son about to vote is not entitled to vote at 
such election precinct. If any elector 
shall vote more than once or having voted 
once shall offer to vote again at any school 
election or shall deposit or offer to deposit 
in the ballot box at any school election 
more than one ballot, he shall be deemed 
guilty of a crime and upon conviction 
thereof he shall be fined not less than 
fifty dollars and shall be imprisoned in 
the county jail for not less than three 
months. 

(h) Violations of election laws, corrupt- 
ing elections. If any person shall falsely 
personate a voter and shall vote under the 
name of such voter he shall be deemed 
guilty of a crime and upon conviction 
thereof, he shall be fined not less than fifty 
dollars and shall be imprisoned in the 
county jail for not less than three months. 

It shall be unlawful for any person, 
directly or indirectly, by himself or 
through any other person : 

(1) To pay, loan or contribute, or offer 
or promise to pay, loan or contribute, any 
money or other valuable consideration to 
or for any voter to vote or refrain from 
voting at any school election provided by 
law, or to induce any voter to vote or re- 
frain from voting at such election for any 



particular person or persons, or to induce 
such voter to go to the polls, or remain 
away from the polls at such election, or 
on account of such voter having voted or 
refrained from voting for any particular 
person, or having gone to the polls or re- 
mained away from the polls at such elec- 
tion. 

(2) To give, offer or promise any office, 
place or employment, or to promise or 
procure or endeavor to procure any office, 
place or employment, to or for any voter, 
or to or for any other person, in order 
to induce such voter to refrain from vot- 
ing at any school election provided by 
law, or to induce any voter to vote or re- 
frain from voting at such election for any 
particular person or persons. 

(3) To advance or pay, or cause to be 
paid, any money or valuable thing to or 
for the use of any person, with the intent 
that the same or any part thereof shall be 
used in bribery at any school election pro- 
vided by law, or to knowingly pay or 
cause to be paid any money or other 
valuable thing ta any person in discharge 
or repayment of any money, wholly or in 
part, expended in bribery at any such 
election. 

Any person convicted of any of the of- 
fenses mentioned in paragraphs (1), (2) 
and (3) of this act shall be punished by 
a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor 
more than five hundred dollars, or impris- 
onment in the county jail for not less than 
six months nor more than one year, or by 
both fine and imprisonment. 

If any elector at any school election 
shall be guilty of willful and corrupt false 
swearing or affirmation by any oath or 
affirmation prescribed by law in the con- 
duct of such election, such person shall 
be deemed guilty of perjury and upon 
conviction thereof shall be punished by a 
fine of not less than fifty dollars or to 
exceed five hundred dollars, or imprison- 
ment in the county jail not to exceed one 
year. 



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If any judge or clerk of a school elec- 
tion shall knowingly and wilfully permit 
any person to vote at any school election 
who is not entitled to vote thereat, or shall 
knowingly and wilfully permit any per- 
sons to vote more than once at such elec- 
tion, or shall knowingly and wilfully per- 
mit any person to deposit more than one 
ballot in the ballot box at such election, 
or shall be guilty of any fraud in the con- 
duct of any such election, or shall know- 
ingly permit the commission of any fraud 
or deceit on the part of any other person in 
the conduct of such election, such judge or 
clerk shall be deemed guilty of a crime, 
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined 
not less than fifty dollars and shall be 
imprisoned in the county jail for not less 
than three months. 

(i) Counting the ballots. Immediately 
after the close of the polls the judges 
shall open the ballot box and proceed to 
count the votes polled, and shall continue 
to count without adjournment until fin- 
ished. If, for any cause, no election be 
held at the regular time, or if, upon count- 
ing the votes, there be a tie vote for any 
one or more of the officers, a special elec- 
tion shall be called by the board within 
ten days, and notice thereof given as re- 
quired in Section 5, sub-section (a) of 
Article V of this act. A failure to give the 
prescribed notice of such special election 
shall render the election void. 

If in school districts of the first class 
it shall be found that the number of bal- 
lots in the box or boxes exceeds the num- 
ber of names entered in the poll books, 
the judges of election, without unfolding 
the ballots, shall examine the endorse- 
ment on the backs of the same, and, if 
in their opinion any one or more of them 
is spurious, they shall be separated from 
the others unopened, and shall not be 
counted, but shall be enclosed in a pack- 
age by themselves, marked ''excess bal- 
lots, '' and returned to the ballot box. A 



record of the number of such excess bal- 
lots shall be made and certified to the 
Board of Directors or Board of Education 
in the certificate of returns. 

As soon as all the ballots shall have 
been counted the judges shall make out 
the certificate of returns in each poll-book 
in duplicate, under their hands, stating 
the number of votes cast, the number of 
excess ballots and the number of unused 
ballots and the number of votes received 
by each candidate, in both words and 
numerical figures. 

One of the poll-books, together with the 
registration list of voters, shall be enclosed 
and sealed under cover, and forthwith de- 
livered by one of the judges to the secre- 
tary of the Board of Education or Board 
of Directors of said school district. 

After the ballots have been counted, 
they shall be returned to the ballot box, 
together with one of the poll-books ; the 
ballot box shall thereupon be closed, 
locked and sealed by the judges of elec- 
tion and shall forthwith be returned to 
the secretary of the Board of Directors 
or Board of Education of that school dis- 
trict by one of the judges other than the 
one designated to return the poll-books 
and registration list. If the judges of 
election cannot agree upon the question 
of which of them shall return the poll- 
books and registration list, and which the 
ballot box, all three of the judges shall 
return both together. 

Upon receiving the ballot box and the 
poll-books and registration list the secre- 
tary of the Board of Directors shall give 
his receipt therefor. Immediately upon 
receiving all the returns of election the 
secretary shall call a meeting of the Board 
of Directors or Board of Education to 
meet not more than twenty-four hours 
later. At such meeting the Board of Di- 
rectors or Board of Education shall pro- 
ceed to open and examine the said cer- 
tificate of returns and shall canvass the 
votes cast, and it shall be the duty of the 



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said board immediately upon the conclu- 
sion of such canvass to make out and de- 
liver a certificate of election to the candi- 
dates who shall receive the highest num- 
ber of votes, or where there is more than 
one vacancy to be filled, to those candi- 
date who shall receive the highest num- 
ber of votes, which said certificates shall 
be signed by the president and secretary 
of the board and bear the impression of 
the corporate seal of the board. 

The Board of Education shall preserve 
the ballot boxes unopened and intact until 
thirty days prior to the next school elec- 
tion, when the secretary shall open the 
same and burn their contents, unless the 
Board shall be required to produce them 
in court of justice. 

Proceedings to contest the election of 
any person declared duly elected as a 
member of the Board of Education of 
any district in this state may be instituted 
by any qualified elector of such school 
district. Such proceedings shall be insti- 
tuted within ten days after the votes cast 
at such election are canvassed. 

The county court of the county wherein 
a school district shall be situated shall 
have jurisdiction for the adjustment of 
all contests for the office of director or 
member of the Board of Education of any 
school district. In such cases the rules 
of practice and procedure in contested 
elections for the office of sheriff shall 
apply, as far as applicable. 

(j) Application of the above laws. 

The general provisions of this section 
shall be applicable to all school elections 
whether general or special or for what- 
ever purpose held, except elections on the 
question of creating or refunding a bonded 
indebtedness, as provided in Article X, 
Section 5, Sub-section (b), Subdivision 13, 
of this act. 

Section 6. Powers and duties. 

The Board of Directors in all first and 
second class and county school districts 



shall, in order to control instruction in 
their respective districts, exercise the fol- 
lowing powers and perform the following 
duties : 

(a) Employment and discharge of 
teachers and other employes. It shall have 
power, subject to the provisions of Arti- 
cle y. Section 4, sub-section (h), defining 
the duties of superintendent of schools, to 
employ and to discharge all necessary 
teachers, officers and other employes, and to 
fix their compensation and order payment 
thereof. No teacher shall be dismissed 
without good cause shown and such teacher 
shall be entitled to receive pay for services 
rendered. 

(b) Tuition fees. It shall, subject to 
the provisions of this act, determine the 
rate of tuition for non-resident pupils and 
collect the same. 

(c) Government of schools. It shall en- 
force the rules and regulations of the 
State Board of Education ; the school laws 
so far as they apply to the schools of the 
district; and the child labor laws of the 
state. • 

It shall make and enforce all needed 
and reasonable rules and regulations for 
the conduct of the schools and may sus- 
pend any pupil from attendance at school 
for a period not to exceed ten days, and 
may expel any pupil who refuses to com- 
ply with such rules and regulations. It 
shall have the power specifically to ex- 
clude from school all children under six 
years of age except pupils in kindergarten 
roomis; all children, teachers, and em- 
ployes afflicted with contagious or infec- 
tious disease ; to forbid the use of sec- 
tarian books and sectarian instruction in 
the schools ; to prevent the use of common 
drinking cups and common towels; to de- 
bar from the privileges of the school all 
pupils who persist in any secret organiza- 
tion if in the judgment of the board such 
membership is detrimental to the welfare 
of the school ; and to require that all chil- 



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dren enrolled in the school be adequately 
supplied with proper books. 

(d) Courses of study and text books. 
It shall determine the courses of study to 
be offered in the schools and the text 
books to be used. 

(e) Provision of facilities. It shall pro- 
vide twelve grades or years of instruction 
for all pupils resident within the district, 
and shall supply all needed furniture and 
appliances for the use of the schools and 
of the board itself. It may provide, at 
the expense of the district, books for indi- 
gent children upon the receipt of written 
statements signed by their teachers that 
the parents of such children are unable 
to purchase the needed books, and it shall 
furnish free text books for the use of all 
pupils when authorized to do so by a ma- 
jority vote of the district, as expressed at 
any regular or special election. 

(f ) Establishment of special schools and 
educational agencies. It shall, in its dis- 
cretion, provide for transportation of pu- 
pils to and from school at public expense. 

It may establish and maintain out of 
the school funds of the district, evening, 
continuation, part time, and vocational 
schools, and schools for aliens, which 
schools shall be open to all persons re- 
gardless of age who may be able to profit 
by the instruction provided. 

In like manner it may establish and 
maintain free kindergarten schools, play- 
grounds, open air schools, school libraries, 
museums, and such parental, truant, clini- 
cal, corrective and orphan schools as may 
be needed in the, district. 

It may provide instruction in and em- 
ploy special teachers for such special sub- 
jects as music, vocal expression, drawing, 
manual training, household economics, 
including the care of children, vocational 
and industrial subjects and subjects for 
the training of such special teachers. It 
may prescribe the qualifications of, con- 
duct examinations for, and issue certificates 



to such teachers, subject to the general reg- 
ulations of the State Board of Education. 

(g) Ownership and care of school prop- 
erty. It shall hold in trust for the school 
district all real and personal school prop- 
erty for the benefit of the schools thereof. 

It may rent, repair, and insure school 
buildings. 

It may. build or remove school buildings 
and buy or sell real estate for school pur- 
poses including lots for playgrounds, 
libraries, and museunns, and may exercise 
the right of eminent domain according 
to law when necessary to secure lands for 
schools, playgrounds and libraries. 

(h) Number of teachers, length of 
school day and term. It shall determine 
the number of teachers that shall be em- 
ployed and shall fix the hours for the 
opening and closing of the schools, and 
for the dismissal of primary pupils, if the 
same are dismissed before the regular 
hour for closing the schools. It shall de- 
termine the length of time over and above 
the minimum of nine months that schools 
shall be maintained each year. In case, 
in the judgment of the Board of Direct- 
ors, it would entail hardship to maintain 
any school for the said minimum term, it 
shall through its secretary file a written 
statement to that effect with the superin- 
tendent of public instruction, stating the 
reasons therefor. The length of the total 
school term in a specified year may be 
reduced below the minimum of nine 
months on written permission from the 
State Board of Education. 

(i) Reports, notices, etc. It shall make 
through its secretary a report on or be- 
fore the first day of August of each year 
to the State Board of Education and to 
the county superintendent of schools in 
the manner and form and on the blanks 
prescribed and furnished for that purpose. 
It shall in the same manner, make other 
reports to the same authorities as directed. 
•It shall at least thirty days before the 
date designated by law for the county 



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commissioners to levy the requisite taxes 
for the then ensuing year, certify to the 
county superintendent of schools the ag- 
gregate amount of money which must in 
its judgment be raised from the taxable 
property of the district to support the 
schools during that year as directed else- 
where in this act. 

It shall through its secretary give notice 
of all regular and all special elections. 

It may submit at any regular or special 
election called for the purpose, to such 
qualified electors of the district as shall 
have paid a school tax therein in the 
calendar year next preceding such elec- 
tion, the question of contracting a bonded 
indebtedness for the purpose of erecting 
and furnishing school buildings, purchas- 
ing ground, building additions to and 
making repairs upon school buildings, or 
for funding floating debts. It may also 
submit in the same manner the question 
of furnishing free text books or any other 
question involving the expenditure of 
public school funds. In all such cases it 
shall have the power to call special elec- 
tions; provided, that no special election 
shall be held within sixty days of a regu- 
lar school election. 

(j) Transfer of pupils. Whenever a 
pupil resides remotely from the school in 
his district, and where a school is more ac- 
cessible or convenient in an adjoining dis- 
trict or county, such pupil shall be per- 
mitted to attend that school which is the 
more accessible or convenient, and be 
granted the same privileges as a resident 
of that district. Provided, the board may 
refuse to admit pupils from other districts 
upon the ground of insufficient room. 
When a child attends school in an ad- 
joining district under circumstances as 
stated above, the directors of the district 
wherein the said pupil resides shall pay 
a reasonable tuition not to exceed the 
cost per pupil for the preceding year, 
to the district wherein the school is 
the more accessible or convenient, which 



said tuition shall be agreed upon by the 
two school boards affected; provided, 
however, if they do not agree, the county 
superintendent or superintendents of the 
county or counties in which such district 
or districts so affected are located shall 
settle the price of tuition. In case said 
two superintendents cannot agree on the 
tuition to be paid, then the superintendent 
of public instruction shall fix the rate of 
said tuition. No tuition shall be charged 
or paid by one local district to another 
within the same county school district. 

The above provisions regarding transfer 
of pupils shall apply to those of any 
grade including high schools. 

Parents or guardians desiring such 
transfer of pupils shall apply to the Board 
of Directors of the. district in which they 
reside for transfer and for agreement to 
pay tuition as herein provided. In case 
said Board of Directors shall neglect or 
refuse to grant such application, then such 
parents or guardians may appeal to the 
county superintendent of schools, who 
shall in his discretion permit the transfer 
and give immediate notice to the secre- 
taries of the boards of directors in each 
of the two districts affected by the trans- 
fer. 

(k) Exchange of teachers. 

It may provide for the interchange of 
teachers with school districts of other 
states, or with districts within the State 
of Colorado; provided, however, that the 
teachers shall exchange for but one year, 
the year's service outside of the state 
being credited to them as teaching in the 
district in which they are regularly em- 
ployed when the interchange is made. 
Provided, further, that the salaries of the 
Colorado teachers shall be paid by the 
Colorado school districts and the salaries 
of the teachers from outside of Colorado 
exchanged to teach in this state shall be 
paid by the school districts in their re- 
spective states. Provided, however, that 
no teacher shall be considered eligible for 



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such an exchange, who has not taught at 
least five years in the district in which 
said teacher is employed. 

(1) General. In general, the Board of 
Directors in each school district shall ex- 
ercise such powers and perform such du- 
ties, not inconsistent with law or the regu- 
lations of duly constituted authorities as 
may insure the establishment and main- 
tenance of an efficient system of public 
schools. 

(m) Restrictions. Members of boards of 
directors of all classes of school districts 
shall serve without compensation, provided, 
that directors of county school district 
boards may be allowed their actual and 
necessary expenses incurred in the per- 
formance of their official duties as provided 
in Section 4, sub-section (g), of this Article. 
It shall be illegal for any Board of Direc- 
tors of a school district to appropriate or 
cause to be used any money apportioned to 
said district for the county public school 
fund for any purpose whatever other than 
the payment of teachers. 

Whenever any officer of any school dis- 
trict shall be charged with the duty of 
making any contract for or on behalf of 
his school district or shall be obliged to 
pay any sum of money to any person 
whomsoever, and whenever any such offi- 
cer, member of any Board of Directors, or 
otherwise, shall have any vote or voice 
in awarding any such contract, it shall not 
be lawful for any such officer to become 
in any manner bound for the fulfillment 
of such contract, or to take or receive any 
part or portion of the money specified in 
such contract, or to be in any way, man- 
ner or degree, interested in such contract, 
excepting in his official representative 
capacity. 

Whoever shall offend against the provi- 
sions of this act shall be imprisoned not 
exceeding six months, and fined not ex- 
ceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), 
and shall be removed from office. 

It shall be unlawful for any school dis- 



trict officer to buy, purchase, trade in or 
acquire, either directly or indirectly, any 
school district warrant or any other evi- 
dences of school district indebtedness of 
the district of which he is such officer at 
the time. Any violations of the provisions 
of this act shall be adjudged a misdemea- 
nor and punished in the discretion of the 
court by a fine not exceeding five hundred 
dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail 
for a period of not more than thirty days. 

Section 7. Special powers and duties of 
boards of directors in county school 
districts. 

The Board of Directors in each county 
school district, in addition to the powers 
and duties specified in the last preceding 
section, shall exercise the following powers 
and perform the following duties. 

(a) Survey of district. It shall, under 
the advice and direction of the superin- 
tendent of public instruction, within one 
year after this act goes into effect, make a 
complete survey of the county school dis- 
trict over the affairs of which it has con- 
trol, for the purpose of determining the 
number of teachers needed, of improving 
and harmonizing the educational system 
of the entire district, and of promoting 
economy and efficiency therein. In addi- 
tion, it shall make such report of its find- 
ings as may be required by the superintend- 
ent of public instruction. 

(b) Boundaries of school districts. It 
may, at its discretion, change the boun- 
daries of local school districts or consolidate 
two or more local districts, or parts of local 
districts, into one district ; transfer school 
territory to a first or a second class district, 
with the consent of the board of school di- 
rectors of such first or second class district ; 
form or abolish joint districts ; close 
schools where the attendance does not jus- 
tify their maintenance and provide for the 
transportation of the pupils thereof to 
some other school; it may, by agreement 
with the board of directors of the first or 



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second class district concerned, associate 
schools of local districts for supervision or 
special instruction with those of such first or 
second class district; and in like manner 
may create and establish a county high 
school district or change the boundaries of 
such district; provided: 

(1) That upon petition of one-fourth of 
the qualified electors whose interests are 
affected by any change herein specified, the 
county superintendent shall submit the 
question at issue to the qualified electors of 
the districts or parts of districts concerned 
and a majority vote, in any one of these 
units of territory, against the proposed ac- 
tion of the board of directors, shall make 
such action null and void so far as it affects 
the interests of the territory within which 
such adverse vote is cast ; and provided : 

(2) That ninety days' notice by publica- 
tion in at least two newspapers of general 
circulation in the districts affected of every 
act specified in the paragraph next preced- 
ing this one shall be given by the board of 
directors and that petitions requesting the 
submission of such proposed action to the 
voters concerned must be filed with the 
county superintendent of schools within at 
least ninety days from the date of first 
publication ; and provided : 

(3) That no existing obligation or out- 
standing debt in any form shall be lessened, 
impaired or transferred by any change 
herein provided for except by the express 
consent of all parties concerned. 

(c) Assignment of duties under special 
circumstances. "When, in the judgment of 
the board of directors of any county school 
district, the employment of a secretary for 
the board is not justified by existing econ- 
omic conditions the function and duties of 
this officer may be assigned by the board to 
the county superintendent of schools. 

Section 8. Special powers and duties of 
boards of directors in districts of the 
first class. 

Boards of directors in districts of the 
first class shall have power and it shall be 



their duty to prescribe qualifications for 
teachers, janitors, engineers and other em- 
ployes under their supervision. They may 
conduct, through their executive officers, 
examination for all such employes and is- 
sue certificates to successful candidates. 
Provided, that the qualifications prescribed 
by such boards shall in no case be of a 
lower standard than those established by 
law or by the State Board of Education. 

Section 9. Powers and duties of direct- 
ors in local districts. 

(a) Co-operation. The board of directors 
in local school districts shall 5o-operate in 
every way possible with the board of the 
county school district, the county superin- 
tendent of schools, the county librarian and 
the county attendance officer in the exercise 
of the powers and the discharge of the du- 
ties of these officers. 

(b) Care of buildings. Under the rules 
and regulations of the county school dis- 
trict board the board of directors of a local 
school district shall through its president 
care for the school buildings and property 
of the local district, make all minor repairs 
and provide fuel and other necessities. 

(c) Notice of meetings, elections, etc. 
The board of directors of a local school dis- 
trict shall serve as a means of communica- 
tion between the people of the local district 
and the county school district board. It 
shall at the direction of the secretary of the 
county school district board give proper 
notices of all annual or special meetings of 
electors and of all elections of the county 
school district. 

(d) Certification of records and of esti- 
mated expenses. The board of directors of 
a local school district shall submit at every 
annual meeting of the qualified electors and 
may submit at a special meeting legally 
called at any time the question of raising 
by special tax upon the property of such 
district a special fund for support 
additional to that provided or offered 
to be provided by the board of direc- 
tors of the county school district for the 



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school or schools in such district; pro- 
vided, that all di^ibursements to be made 
out of such special fund shall be made by 
action of the county school district board, 
and the county treasurer is authorized and 
required to transfer to the ' ' County School 
District Fund" for such purpose the re- 
quired amount upon orders signed by the 
directors of the local district. Any funds 
remaining to the credit of any of the vari- 
ous constituent third class districts, or the 
local districts corresponding thereto at the 
time the county school district board is 
organized, by authority of this act shall be 
transferred 'to the fund of such county 
school district to be expended solely for the 
benefit of such local district as are other 
special funds of said district, and the lia- 
bilities of each such district shall be paid by 
warrants of the county school district 
board to the extent of the funds so trans- 
ferred upon the order of the directors of the 
local board. The transfer of funds, as well 
as of records and other property, shall be 
effected under the direction of the county 
superintendent. 

The board of directors of a local school 
district shall, through its secretary, certify, 
at the proper time, to the county superin- 
tendent of schools the estimated amount of 
money required to be raised by special tax 
levy as authorized by vote of the qualified 
electors within the local district. In like 
manner it shall also certify to the county 
superintendent the entire records of all its 
meetings and of all meetings of the electors 
of the district. 

It may at any time call a meeting of the 
electors of the district for any of the pur- 
poses specified in Article V, Section 10, 
sub-section (b) of this act and it shall call 
such meeting if petitioned so to do by ten 
legal voters of the district. Notices speci- 
fying the time, place and object or objects 
of such meeting shall be posted in three 
public places, one of which shall be at the 
place of meeting, at least twenty days prior 
to the holding of such meeting. 

(e) Eeports. The board of directors of 



each local school district shall make all re- 
ports required by law and at any time such 
reports as may be requested by the county 
superintendent of schools or the State 
Board of Education. 

Section 10. Powers of electors. 

(a) In districts of the first and second 
classes and county school districts. The 
qualified electors of any first or second class 
or county school district shall have the 
power to determine by majority vote at 
any regular election or at any properly 
called special election the following ques- 
tions: Furnishing of free text books for 
all pupils, except as otherwise provided 
herein; the issuing of bonds for the pur- 
pose of raising money for purchasing 
grounds, erecting or furnishing school 
buildings, building additions to and making 
repairs upon school buildings, or funding 
floating debts, and all questions properly 
submitted for their decision by the board 
of school directors or the county superin- 
tendent of schools. They may petition by 
one-fourth of their number to the county 
superintendent of schools for the submis- 
sion for their decision at a regular or spe- 
cial election any one of the above questions 
or any question affecting district boun- 
daries as provided in this act, and they may 
determine the same by majority vote. Up- 
on receipt of any such properly certified 
petition the county superintendent shall 
give proper notice of the election. 

(b) In local school districts. The quali- 
fied electors in any local school district may, 
at any regular or special election or meet- 
ing, order the levying of a special tax for 
the erection or repairing of school build- 
ings or for the maintenance of school ; they 
may, at any election called for the purpose, 
vote bonds, as provided in Article X, Sec- 
tion 5, sub-section (b) of this act; they 
may petition as provided in this act for an 
election and determine by majority vote 
any school question affecting their interest ; 
they may appeal to the State Board of Edu- 
cation, through the board of directors of 



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their school district from any decision of 
the county superintendent of schools or the 
county school district board, or of the coun- 
ty high school committee. 

ARTICLE VI. 

ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
INSTRUCTION. 

A public school is hereby defined to be a 
school that derives its support entirely or 
in part, from, money raised by a general 
state, county or district tax. (R. S. 6008.) 

Section 1. Classification of schools. 

For the purpose of efficient administra- 
tion the public schools supported by the 
various districts of the state shall be classi- 
fied as follows, which classification shall be 
inclusive of all types of schools, such as 
academic, vocational, agricultural, and 
teacher-training. 

(a) Elementary schools, which shall in- 
clude approximately the work of the first 
six years of the pupil's school life begin- 
ning usually at the age of six years and in- 
cluding the work of the first, second, third, 
fourth, fifth and sixth grades in which shall 
be taught in general the common school 
branches as ordinarily defined. 

(b) Junior high schools which shall in- 
clude the work of the seventh, eighth, and 
ninth grades or of the seventh, eighth, ninth 
and tenth grades and in which, in addition 
to instruction in the common branches, may 
be offered instruction in the so-called high 
school subjects and in industrial or voca- 
tional subjects. 

(c) Senior high schools which shall in 
general continue the work of the junior 
high schools as defined above but in which 
the instruction may be more specialized and 
extensive. These schools may include the 
tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades or only 
the eleventh and twelfth grades, and may 
include provision for one year of post-grad- 
uate work for the purpose of teacher-train- 
ing, and also for two years of post-graduate 



work wliich shall correspond in general to 
the first two y^ars of the ordinary college 
course. 

Section 2. Application of above classi- 
fication. 

Boards of directors in first and second 
class districts and in county school districts 
acting in co-operation with county and 
union high school committees of said coun- 
ty shall have power in their several capa- 
cities and by agreement among such boards 
and committees to make such division of 
the twelve grades of instruction and to so 
establish and locate schools and depart- 
ments of schools provided for by law as 
shall in their judgment best promote the 
school interests of the entire county, and 
the classification given above shall not be 
held in and of itself to enforce or compel 
any change from existing divisions of the 
twelve grades of instruction. 

Section 3. District high schools. 

(a) In districts of the first class. Boards 
of directors in all first class districts shall 
provide all grades of high school instruc- 
tion and may, in addition, provide for 
one year post-graduate work for teacher- 
training and for two years of junior college 
work. 

(b) In districts of the second class. 
Boards of directors in second class districts 
may provide high school instruction, or 
may, by action of the board of directors 
and with the consent of the County 
School District Board, after due notice and 
in the absence of adverse petition and elec- 
tion, become for all purposes, including 
high school instruction, a part of the coun- 
ty school district or of a county high school 
district; but high school instruction shall 
be provided for all children resident with- 
in the district. 

(c) In county school districts. From 
and after the taking effect of this act the 
County School District Board shall estab- 
lish, maintain and control for the entire 
county in such places as may be most ac- 



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eessible, junior high school instruction or 
its equivalent; senior high school instruc- 
tion or its equivalent; and it may provide 
for one year of post-graduate work for 
those preparing to teach and for two years 
of post-graduate work for those preparing 
for college. These obligations and powers 
shall apply in each of the following cases: 

(1) In counties containing no county or 
union high school and no first or second 
class districts. 

(2) In counties in which the entire coun- 
ty is included in one county high school 
district or in one union high school district, 
there being no first or second class district 
in the county not so included; in all such 
cases the functions of the existing county 
high school district or union high school 
district and of its officers shall pass over 
to the county school district and its officers 
and the former county or union high school 
district shall be abolished. All of these 
changes shall take place upon due notice 
from the county superintendent of schools 
to the governing bodies of the districts con- 
cerned. 

(3) In counties in which any union high 
school districts or county high school dis- 
trict embrace only local districts and 
do not include the entire county, there 
being no first or second class districts in the 
county, the functions of the existing county 
high school district or of each union high 
school district and of its officers shall pass 
over to the county school district and its 
officers and the said existing county or 
union high school district, or union high 
school organization, shall cease to exist as 
such district. All these changes shall take 
place only upon due notice to the govern- 
ing bodies of the districts concerned by the 
county superintendent of schools. 

Section 4. County high schools. 

(a) Provision for districts. The county 
school district board by agreement with the 
boards of first or second class districts or 
with high school committees in control of 
union high school districts which include 



within their boundaries any school district 
of the first or second class may establish 
a county high school district or change the 
boundaries of such district ; but only by 
formal resolution recorded in the minutes 
of each such board and after due notice 
given by the county superintendent and in 
the absence of adverse petition and election. 
Provided, that no district or portion of any 
district shall be taxed for the support of 
more than one system of schools of the same 
class or grade. 

(b) Existing districts and schools. Coun- 
ty high school districts existing when this 
act takes effect and including any first or 
second class district or districts shall after 
due notice by the county superintendent 
and in the absence of adverse petition and 
election, pass under the control and man- 
agement of the county high school commit- 
tee as herein constituted. 

Prom and after the taking effect of this 
act, every union high school which shall at 
the time this act takes effect be under the 
control of a high school committee or of 
a school board of a union high school dis- 
trict, shall continue its existence under the 
provisions of this act and no resident of 
any district supporting such union high 
school shall be deprived of the right to high 
school instruction therein because of any 
provision of this act. 

To promote instruction in the high and 
elementary schools of each county by means 
of a county system of schools under unified 
control of legally constituted school dis- 
tricts, the following provisions are hereby 
enacted : 

The high school committee . of any 
union high school organized under any of 
the provisions of Section 5956 of the Re- 
vised Statutes of Colorado of 1908 shall 
from and after the taking effect of this 
act consist of the legally elected board of 
directors of the county school district as 
provided for in this act in case such union 
high school shall, in addition to state and 
county funds, receive support only from 



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districts of the third class (to be known as 
local school districts after this act goes into 
effect). The high school committee of any 
such union high school organized under the 
provisions of said act shall consist of the 
county high school committee in and for 
said county or county high school district 
as provided herein in case such union high 
school shall derive support, in addition to 
state and county funds, from any district 
of the first or second class, together with 
any district or districts of the third class 
(known hereafter as local school districts). 

From and after the taking effect of 
this act every union high school district 
organized and existing under and by au- 
thority of Sections 5972 to 5977, inclusive, 
of the Revised Statutes of Colorado of 
1908 shall in case its territory embraces no 
school district of the first or second class 
cease to exist as such union high school dis- 
trict and the high school or high schools of 
such district shall be maintained by the 
board of directors of the county school dis- 
trict as provided for in this act, and in case 
of any such union high school district so 
organized which shall embrace within its 
territory any school district of the first or 
second class, such union high school dis- 
trict shall cease to exist as said district and 
the high school or high schools therein shall 
be maintained by and under the control of 
the county high school committee for said 
county as provided in this act. The terri- 
tory in and of such union high school dis- 
trict shall with the county school district 
in and of said county constitute the county 
high school district of said county. 

(c) County high school committee. There 
shall be in each county where first or second 
class districts shall be or shall become part 
of a county high school district a county 
high school committee whose membership, 
term, organization, powers and duties shall 
be as follows : 

1. Membership. The membership of the 
county high school committee shall consist 
of: the members of the county school dis- 



trict board; the county superintendent of 
schools; and one member chosen by and 
from the board of directors of each first 
and second class district which is taxed for 
support of the county high school. The 
members of any county high school commit- 
tee shall receive as their sole compensation 
their traveling and other expenses actually 
and necessarily incurred in the perform- 
ance of their duties. 

2. Term and vacancy. The term of of- 
fice of members of the county high school 
committee shall expire simultaneously with 
the expiration of their terms as directors 
in the districts in which they reside. The 
county superintendent shall give notice of 
any vacancy caused by expiration of term 
to the proper board and such board shall at 
its first regular meeting fill such vacancy. 

All vacancies not caused by the expira- 
tion of the term of office as member of a 
district board, shall be filled by appoint- 
ment by the county superintendent of 
schools. 

3. Officers. The officers of the county 
high school committee shall consist of a 
president and a treasurer, each of whom 
shall be chosen by and from the members 
of said committee, and a secretary who shall 
be the county superintendent of schools. 
The county superintendent of schools shall 
be the executive officer of the committee. 

4. Meetings. Regular meetings of the 
county high school committee shall be held 
in the office of the county superintendent of 
schools or in such other place as may be 
agreed upon by the members of the commit- 
tee on the first Saturday in March, June, 
September and December of each year. 

Special meetings may be held at any time 
upon the written request of the president, 
the secretary, or any two members of the 
committee, due notice of such meetings hav- 
ing been sent to each member of the com- 
mittee. 

5. Powers and duties. For the purpose 
of maintaining county high schools, the 
powers and duties of the county high school 
committee and of the officers thereof shall 



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be the same as those enumerated in this act 
for boards of school directors in districts 
of the first class, except that it shall not 
grant certificates to teachers nor shall a 
tax of more than four mills be levied at 
its request for county high school purposes. 

County high school committees and 
boards of directors of county school dis- 
tricts, or either of them, shall have power 
to erect and maintain dormitories for stu- 
dents enrolled in high schools. 

Any county high school committee or 
county school district board controlling 
high school instruction may provide for 
short courses and extension work through- 
out the county and for this purpose may 
join with the state and with the United 
States in the employment of a county agri- 
cultural agent or other instructors or as- 
sistants. 
Section 5. Existing union high schools. 

Upon the taking effect of this act, any 
union high school or union high school dis- 
trict, the control of which does not by the 
provisions of this act as found in Article VI, 
Section 4, sub-section (b), herein, pass over 
to the board of directors of the county 
school district of the county in which such 
union high school or union high school dis- 
trict is situated shall continue its existence 
and the union high school committee or the 
school board of the union high school dis- 
trict shall be constituted in the same man- 
ner, shall exercise such powers and dis- 
charge such duties as by law provided be- 
fore the taking effect of this act. But no 
union high school or union high school dis- 
trict shall hereafter be organized except by 
authority of the board of directors as speci- 
fied in the provisions of Article VI, Section 
2 herein. 

ARTICLE Vn. 
LIBRARIES. 

Section 1. County Library Board — cresu- 
tion. 

There is hereby created in each county 
a County Library Board consisting of the 
members of the County School District 



Board and a delegate member from the 
Board of Directors of each first and second 
class district in the county. 

Section 2. Establishment of county li- 
brary. 

There may be established by any County 
Library Board a county library containing 
books, charts, maps, and other apparatus 
suitable for use in the public schools and by 
the general public, which library shall be a 
part of a state and county system of li- 
braries operating under the general super- 
vision of the state. The County Library 
Board may co-operate with city or school 
district libraries in erecting and furnishing 
libraries and in the conduct of the same 
and of co-operating libraries under the 
joint control of the County Library Board 
and the Library Board of said city. 

Section 3. Location. 

Such county library shall be located at 
the county seat in quarters provided by the 
county commissioners, unless a special 
building is provided for such purposes. 
Branch libraries may be established in the 
various school houses at the discretion of 
the County Library Board. Said County 
Library Board shall have power to erect 
such buildings as may be needed for the 
library or its branches in the same manner 
and upon the same conditions as school 
buildings are erected, and may submit in 
like manner to the qualified electors of the 
county the question of contracting bonded 
indebtedness for purchasing ground and 
for erecting a library thereon and for fur- 
nishing the same ; but bonded indebtedness 
for this purpose shall not exceed one per 
cent, of the last equalized assessed valua- 
tion. 

Section 4. Management. 

Libraries established in the manner in- 
dicated above shall be under the general 
supervision of and subject to the rules and 
regulations of the State Board of Educa- 
tion. The County Library Board shall have 



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power to adopt rules and regulations for the 
conduct of such library not inconsistent 
with existing law or the regulations of 
the State Board of Education. 

Section 5. Librarian. 

The County Library Board of the coun- 
ty in which a library is established in ac- 
cordance with the provisions of this act may 
appoint a county librarian who shall be 
tinder the supervision of the county super- 
intendent of schools, and whose duty it 
shall be to have immediate charge of all 
the books, maps, charts, apparatus, etc., 
belonging in library or its branches. Said 
librarian shall arrange for the circulation 
of any such material among the various 
schools and the people of the county in such 
manner and upon such condition as may be 
prescribed by the County Library Board. 
He shall be responsible for the care, repair^ 
and sanitary condition of all books and 
other material in his charge and may store 
and distribute any school supplies as di- 
rected by the county superintendent of 
schools. 

The secretary of the Board of Directors 
of the county school district, or the county 
superintendent of schools or the librarian 
of any city library situated within the 
county may act as such librarian when au- 
thorized to so act by the County Library 
Board. 

Section 6. Co-operation of various em- 
ployes. 

Under the supervision of the county su- 
perintendent of schools the superintend- 
ents, principals teachers and janitors in the 
various districts receiving the benefits of 
the library established by the County Li- 
brary Board of the county shall co-operate 
in any way possible with the librarian in 
securing the greatest possible service from 
the library, which service may include 
traveling libraries and exchanges of books, 
sets of books, maps and charts and appa- 
ratus for use in instruction. 



Section 7. Support and maintenance. 

Such library shall be equipped and sup- 
ported by the County Library Board out of 
the income from the special tax levy for 
library purposes. The County Library 
Board shall have power to submit estimates 
of money needed to be raised by tax for 
maintenance of the county library and pur- 
chase of books therefor in the same manner 
as provided for boards of directors of school 
districts. The county superintendent shall 
certify such estimates to the county com- 
missioners as in case of school districts and 
the county commissioners shall make the 
necessary levy, but no such levy shall ex- 
ceed one-tenth of a mill, except for pay- 
ment of bonded indebtedness. 

HIGHER AND PROFESSIONAL 
EDUCATION. 

In compiling the Annotated School Laws 
following the adoption of this act, the stat- 
utory provisions relating to the University 
of Colorado, the State School of Mines, and 
the Agricultural College would logically 
come at this point. 

ARTICLE VIII. 
SCHOOL FUNDS AND TAXATION. 

The act approved by the voters of the 
state, November 7 , 1916, providing for the 
investment of the public school fund is not 
amended or repealed. In the compilation 
of the school laws, it would logically come 
at this point. 

Section 1. State public school income 
fund. 

(a) Definition. The state public school 
income fund shall consist of the income 
from the permanent school fund as defined 
in the constitution of the State of Colorado. 

No portion of the public school income 
fund, except as herein provided, shall be 
used for any purpose other than for the 
payment of teachers' salaries. 



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Section 2. County public school fund. 

(a) Definition. The county public school 
fund shall consist of the money appor- 
tioned to the county by the superintendent 
of public instruction from the public school 
income fund of the state ; of the money re- 
ceived from the forfeiture of the bond or 
bonds of any county or district school of- 
ficer; of the money received from the sale 
of lost goods and estrays ; of the income 
from the United States forest reserve lo- 
cated in the particular county; of all fines 
and penalties that are paid within the 
county and which are to become a part of 
the county public school fund as herein- 
after provided. 

(b) Fines and forfeitures. Such fines 
and forfeitures as may accrue to the county 
under Sections 3874 and 5897 of the Re- 
vised Statutes of Colorado of 1908 shall 
become a part of the county school fund. 

Section 3. School emergency or call fund. 

(a) There is hereby created the School 
Emergency or Call Fund; said fund shall 
be under the control of the superin- 
tendent of public instruction as hereinafter 
provided. There is hereby appropriated 
annually, and as a continuing appropria- 
tion, for the School Emergency or Call 
Fund, to be transferred or set over from 
the Public School Income Fund of the 
State, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or 
so much thereof as may be necessary to 
carry out the provisions of this act each 
year. Said School Emergency or Call 
Fund shall remain in the hands of the 
state treasurer. Any interest earned 
thereon or arising from the investment 
thereof shall be credited to the Public 
School Income Fund and become a part 
thereof. On the date of each annual ap- 
portionment of the Public School Income 
Fund of the State to counties, in July, 
the state treasurer, if payments have been 
made from the School Emergency or Call 
Fund during the preceding annual period, 
shall transfer and set over from said Pub- 



lic School Income Fund a sufficient sum 
to restore said School Emergency or Call 
Fund to $10,000, so that the said fund 
will be intact and of the same amount as 
though no payments had been made there- 
from ; provided, that not more than a 
total of $10,000' shall be set over to the 
School Emergency or Call Fund from the 
Public School Income Fund in any one 
year. 

(b) When, on account of unavoidable 
misfortune or casualty, any school dis- 
trict in this state is in financial distress 
and the special school tax for said district 
and apportionment of the school funds 
from state and county sources are not suffi- 
cient to pay the yearly salaries of teachers 
in such school district at the rate of sixty 
dollars ($60) per month for each teach- 
er necessarily employed, the superinten- 
dent of public instruction may, with the 
approval and consent of the State Board 
of Education, order the payment from the 
School Emergency or Call Fund to such 
school district of such an amount as may 
be necessary to pay each teacher in said 
district a salary of sixty dollars ($60) 
per month for the minimum annual term of 
nine months. Payments shall be made from 
the School Emergency or Call Fund only 
upon the presentation of sufficient and 
satisfactory evidence that the school dis- 
trict making application for relief under 
the provisions hereof is by reason of un- 
avoidable misfortune or casualty in finan- 
cial distress, and that the special school 
tax and apportionment of school funds 
are not sufficient to enable the district to 
pay the wages of teachers in said district 
at the rate of sixty dollars ($60) per 
month for the said minimum term. The 
auditor is hereby authorized to draw his 
warrant on the state treasurer in payment 
of any voucher issued against the School 
Emergency or Call Fund, signed by the 
superintendent of public instruction and 
approved by the State Board of Education. 



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Section 4. Aid to school districts fund. 

(a) There is hereby created an ''Aid to 
School Districts Fund'' which shall be a 
permanent fund under the control of the 
superintendent of public instruction as 
hereinafter provided. There is hereby 
transferred and set over from the Public 
School Income Fund of the state the sum 
of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000), 
for the purpose of carrying out the provi- 
sions of this act for the current year and 
the state treasurer shall annually here- 
after before each July apportionment of 
the said Public School Income Fund, set 
aside therefrom the sum of thirty thou- 
sand dollars ($30,000), or such smaller 
sum as may be necessary, together with 
any unexpended portion of sums previ- 
ously set aside for the same purpose, to 
make a total of thirty thousand dollars, 
and shall retain the same in his possession 
as the*Aid to School Districts Fund. Any 
interest earned thereon, or arising from 
the investment thereof, shall be credited 
to the Public School Income Fund and be- 
come a part thereof. 

(b) When any school district in any 
county in the state shall have applied all 
the funds received from the ordinary ap- 
portionment from state and county school 
funds, and in addition thereto a sum equal 

to the revenue from a tax of mills 

on the assessed valuation of taxable 
property in said school district for the 
current year to the payment of the 
salaries of teachers necessarily^ employed 
in the schools of said district, and such 
sums so applied shall not be sufficient 
for the payment of such salaries of such 
teachers for the minimum of nine months 
at sixty dollars ($60) per month, or 
for such shorter time at sixty dollars 
($60) per month as such teachers may 
be legally employed, such district by its 
Board of Directors may make application 
to the county superintendent of the 
county for such sum as may be necessary, 
in addition to all other funds available 



for the purpose, to pay salaries of such 
teachers. Such application shall give such 
information as may be required by the 
superintendent of public instruction and 
shall in all cases include the following 
items : 

1. The name, the post office address, the 
monthly salary and the term of service of 
each teacher under contract with and em- 
ployed by the Board of Directors of the 
district. 

2. The sums received from the ordinary 
apportionments made from the first of July 
last preceding to the date of the applica- 
tion. 

3. The rate of the special tax levy for 
school purposes paid by owners of prop- 
erty in such district, the amount received 
from such levy, and the total sum applied 
to the payment of salaries of teachers. 

4. The sum paid each teacher with the 
dates or numbers and the amounts of the 
warrants drawn for the payment of such 
teacher. 

(c) Upon the receipt of any such appli- 
cation from the Board of Directors of any 
school district of the county, the county 
superintendent of such county shall make 
such investigation as may be necessary, and 
when satisfied of the correctness of the in- 
formation contained in the application, may 
if he believes that the application should be 
granted, certify his approval of the applica- 
tion and to the truth of the information con- 
tained therein, and shall forward the said 
application when so approved and certified 
to the superintendent of public instruction. 

(d) Upon the receipt of application from 
any district, said application bearing ap- 
proval and certification by the county su- 
perintendent as provided herein, the super- 
intendent of public instruction may, there- 
upon, with the approval of the State 
Board of Education, order the payment 
from the ''Aid to School Districts Fund" 
to the school district making such ap- 
plication of such an amount as may be 
necessary, together with all funds available 



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to the credit of such school district for 
payment of teachers' salaries, to pay 
the salaries of teachers employed in such 
district as specified herein. Upon the order 
of the superintendent of public instruction 
approved by the State Board of Education, 
the state treasurer shall pay into the trea- 
sury of the county in which such dis- 
trict is located, the sum so apportioned by 
the superintendent of public instruction, 
-and the sum so paid shall be placed to the 
credit of the school district to which such 
sum shall be apportioned. The amount ex- 
pended from the ''Aid to School Districts 
Fund ' ' shall not exceed in any one year the 
sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000). 
(e) Nothing in this act shall be construed 
to prevent the levying of a special tax for 

school purposes of more than 

mills, nor to prevent local districts from 
raising funds in addition to those expended 
or to be expended by the Board of Direc- 
tors of the county school district for the 
maintenance of school in such local district. 

Section 5. Taxation — District, and county 
and union high school purposes. 

Thirty days before the earliest date fixed 
by law for the fixing of tax levies by the 
county commissioners, boards of school di- 
rectors of districts of the first or second 
class and of county school districts, county 
high school committees, and boards having 
control of union high schools shall certify 
through their secretaries to the county su- 
perintendent of schools of their respective 
counties the estimated amount of money 
necessary for the maintenance of school 
during the succeeding school year; and 
separate from this the amount necessary for 
the erection or repair of school buildings 
during the same period ; and further, sepa- 
rately the amount necessary for the pay- 
ment of the interest and principal of out- 
standing bonded indebtedness. 

The county superintendent of schools 
shall deduct from the certified estimates 
received as above any unexpended balances 
remaining in the various funds and from 



the amount estimated for maintenance the 
sum received by each district from state 
and county sources during the previous 
year and shall certify to the county com- 
missioners the sum of the remainders as the 
amount to be raised by taxation. The 
county commissioners shall add thereto five 
per cent., to provide for cost of collecting 
and for uncollected taxes and shall fix and 
order a levy sufficient to produce the 
amount thus obtained. 

Section 6. Local district taxation. 

In the case of local school districts the pro- 
cedure in regard to taxation shall be as de- 
scribed in Section 5 immediately preceding 
except that the sum certified to the county\ 
superintendent of schools shall have been 
authorized by a majority of the qualified 
electors of the district at an annual election 
or in a meeting regularly called for that 
purpose. 

The board of directors of a local school 
district shall furnish such assistance or in- 
formation to the board of directors of the 
county school district as may be needed or 
required by said board or by the county 
superintendent in order to determine the 
sum of money needed for the county school 
district during the ensuing year. 

ARTICLE IX. 

APPORTIONMENT OF FUNDS. 

Section 1. State public school income 
fund. 

(a) Duties of officers. 

It shall be the duty of the state auditor to 
notify the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion of the amount of money in the state 
treasury to the credit of the public school 
income fund, on the thirtieth day of June 
and December in each year. Within fifteen 
days after receiving such notification, the 
superintendent of public instruction shall 
apportion said fund among the several 
counties of the state, from which reports 
have been received by said superintendent, 



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as provided in this act, in the following 
manner : One-half of the available sum to 
be apportioned among the several counties 
in proportion to the number of teachers 
employed (excluding superintendents, prin- 
cipals, supervisors and other teachers, 
whose contracts do not call for at least half 
of the school day in teaching of pupils) as 
shown by the official reports of the county 
superintendents for the year last preceding 
the apportionment. The remainder of the 
fund to be apportioned among the several 
counties of the state in proportion to the 
aggregate daily attendance in the public 
schools. In making such apportionment 
the superintendent of public instruction 
shall make such deductions from the 
amount due each county as provided for in 
Article III, Section 1, sub-section (j) 
of this act. And the superintendent 
of public instruction shall certify said 
apportionment to the state auditor, and 
upon such certificate the auditor shall draw 
his warrant on the state treasury in favor 
of the county treasurer of each county, for 
the amount due said county. The superin- 
tendent of public instruction shall also cer- 
tify to the superintendent of each county 
the amount apportioned to such county. 

(b) Definition of terms. In making the 
above apportionment, the superintendent 
of public instruction shall be guided by the 
report of the county superintendent of 
schools for the year next preceding the ap- 
portionment. 

The aggregate daily attendance for each 
county shall be determined as directed by 
the State Board of Education from the of- 
ficial report of the county superintendent 
for the year next preceding the apportion- 
ment. 

Section 2. County teachers* training 
class fund. 

For the purpose of providing state sup- 
port for county teacher training classes, the 
state treasurer shall on or before the thir- 
tieth day of June and before the July ap- 
portionment of the public school income 



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fund, set aside each year the sum of ten 
thousand dollars from said fund and shall 
retain the same in his possession as the 
"County Teachers' Training Class Fund." 
Said fund shall be disbursed upon vouchers 
issued against said fund signed by the su- 
perintendent of public instruction and ap- 
proved by the State Board of Education. 
Any portion of the fund remaining unex- 
pended on the twenty-fifth day of June in 
each year shall revert to the public school 
income fund. 

Section 3. County public school fund. 

(a) General. The county public school 
fund shall be apportioned among the sev- 
eral districts of the county, except local dis- 
tricts, by the county superintendent of 
schools on the following dates and in the 
following manner : 

1. The apportionments shall be made on 
the first Monday in January, and in July, 
of each year, or as soon thereafter as may 
be possible. 

2. On each of the above dates the coun- 
ty superintendent shall apportion to each 
district of the first or second class and to the 
county school district in his county a sum 
of money determined by dividing one-half 
the available sum by the total number of 
teachers employed in the county, and multi- 
plying the quotient by the number of teach- 
ers employed in the district according to 
the official report of the secretaries of the 
district boards for the last school year next 
preceding the date for the apportionment. 

In determining the number of teachers in 
districts as a basis for this apportionment 
only properly qualified teachers who have 
been regularly employed for the full school 
year shall be included. Superintendents, 
principals, and supervisors whose contracts 
do not call for at least one-half time for 
personal teaching of pupils shall not be in- 
cluded in this enumeration. In addition to 
this amount the county superintendent 
shall apportion to each district its propor- 
tionate share of the remainder of the coun- 
ty public school fund which share shall be 



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determined on the basis of the aggregate 
daily attendance in each of the several dis- 
tricts as shown by the official report of the 
secretary, of date next preceding the date 
of the apportionment. The county superin- 
tendent shall also certify to the secretary 
of each school district the amount appor- 
tioned to such district. 

(b) To new districts. At the first regu- 
lar apportionment of the county public 
school fund after the organization of a new 
district, the county superintendent shall 
apportion to such district a sum of money 
to be determined by taking such a percent- 
age of the total amount available for appor- 
tionment as the school population of the 
new district is of the total aggregate at- 
tendance of the county according to the last 
preceding reports of secretaries of boards 
of directors. 

(c) Withholding of funds. The superin- 
tendent of public instruction and the coun- 
ty superintendents shall withhold any of 
the above apportionments of state or coun- 
ty public school funds until all reports re- 
quired from the district boards have been 
received and all rules and regulations of the 
State Board of Education have been com- 
plied with. 

ARTICLE X. 

SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND 
SANITATION. 

Section 1. Provisions for school facilities 
and teachers. 

The board of directors in each school dis- 
trict shall provide suitable school facilities 
and accommodations for all children of 
school age residing in the district and desir- 
ing to attend school therein. Such facilities 
and accommodations shall include proper 
buildings, together with suitable furniture 
and equipment, located so as to be reason- 
ably convenient of access by transportation 
at public expense or oj:herwise ; and a suf- 
ficient number of properly qualified teach- 
ers. 



Section 2. Character of buildings. 

The State Board of Education shall make 
suitable regulations concerning the heating, 
lighting, ventilation, fire protection, water 
supply and general sanitation of school 
buildings. 

The superintendent of public instruction 
shall have power to order immediate altera- 
tions in school buildings or to prohibit the 
use of school buildings when in his judg- 
ment they do not comply wth the rules and 
regulations of the State Board of Educa- 
tion. The board of directors of the district 
in which any such building is located may 
appeal from the decision of the superin- 
tendent of public instruction to the State 
Board of Education, whose decision shall 
be final. 

If the board of directors in any school 
district shall fail to maintain suitable build- 
ings or adequate school facilities for the 
children in the district, any five citizens in 
the district may file a written protest with 
the superintendent of public instruction 
stating specifically the character of their 
complaint. Upon receipt of any such pro- 
test, the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall make investigation of conditions 
in the district and order such changes as 
he may see fit. Any such orders of the 
superintendent of public instruction shall 
be subject to appeal to the State Board of 
Education. 

The State Board of Education and the 
superintendent of public instruction shall 
have power to withhold from any district 
that refuses to comply with the rules and 
regulations of this section the whole or any 
portion of the public school income fund 
that may be due such district under the 
laws governing apportionment of such 
fund. 

Section 3. Use of buildings. 

The board of school directors in any 
school district may at its discretion permit 
the use of any school building at times when 
the same is not in use for school purposes, 
for any purpose of an educational char- 



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acter, or for public meetings, provided such 
use does not involve the .removal of per- 
manent furniture, and provided satisfactory 
guarantees are given as to the care of school 
property. The intent of this provision 
is to encourage use of school buildings as 
community centers. 

Section 4. Erection of buildings. 

Before any new school building can be 
contracted for by a board of school direc- 
tors, the funds for its erection must have 
been voted, or the necessary tax levied, or 
sufficient bonds authorized as provided in 
this act and sold, and the plans and specifi- 
cations, except in the case of any first class 
district, must have been approved by the 
State Board of Education. The contract 
must be let only after advertising and the 
receipt of sealed bids. Each board of school 
directors on whose order money for building 
is expended shall have charge of the letting 
of contracts and the supervision of con- 
struction for school buildings within its 
district. All contractors shall give satisfac- 
tory bonds to the board for the faithful ful- 
fillment of their contracts. 

Section 5. Building funds. 

(a) Special tax. The board of directors 
in any school district except local districts 
may levy a special tax not to exceed four 
(4) mills in any one year for the purchase 
of school sites, the erection or repair of 
school buildings, or the purchase of furni- 
ture or equipment for buildings ^^dthin the 
district. Such special tax may be spread 
over two or more years if approved by the 
State Board of Education and by the qual- 
ified electors. Local school district boards 
may at any time propose the levy of a spe- 
cial tax for the purchase of school sites, the 
erection or repair of school buildings, or 
the purchase of furniture or equipment for 
buildings within the district and may ar- 
range for a vote upon such proposition at 
any regular election or may call a special 
election or meeting for its determination. 
In such cases a majority vote of the quali- 



fied electors of the district shall decide the 
question. 

(b) Bonds. 1. The board of directors 
of any school district may submit at 
any regular or special election called for 
the purpose, to such qualified electors of 
the district as shall have paid a school tax 
therein in the calendar year next preceding 
such election, the question of contracting 
a bonded indebtedness for any one or more 
of the following purposes : 

1. Purchasing ground. 

2. Erecting and furnishing school build- 
ings. 

3. Building additions to and making re- 
pairs upon school buildings. 

4. Funding floating debts. 
Provided, that the purchase of ground 

and the erecting and furnishing thereon of 
one or more school buildings is hereby de- 
clared to be and shall be held and consid- 
ered a single purpose and may be submitted 
to such electors as a single question. 

2. The amount of the bonded indebt- 
edness proposed to be contracted shall, 
prior to such submission to such electors, be 
determined by said board of directors, but 
in no event shall the aggregate amount of 
bonded indebtedness of any high school dis- 
trict exceed three per cent., or of any other 
school district exceed five per cent., of the 
last equalized assessed valuation, of the tax- 
able property in such district, next preced- 
ing the date of said election. 

3. Notices of said election shall be 
posted in at least three public places in 
the district, and at each polling place, at 
least twenty days before said election, and 
said notice shall also be published once a 
week for four consecutive weeks, next pre- 
ceding such election, in a newspaper pub- 
lished at the county seat of the county in 
which said school district, or the greater 
part thereof, is situate, which publication, 
if made in a weekly paper, shall be deemed 
sufficient if made in four consecutive issues 
thereof, or, if made in a daily paper, shall 
be deemed sufficient if published in one is- 
sue thereof each week for four consecutive 



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weeks. Said notice shall specify the pur- 
pose of said election, the date and voting 
place or places, and the time during which 
the ballot box or boxes shall be kept open, 
not less, however, than three hours. 

4. In all school districts the school 
board may order more than one vot- 
ing place in the district, fix the voting 
places and the limits of the voting pre- 
cincts. 

The president, secretary and treasurer of 
the district school board may act as judges 
of the election or said board may appoint 
three judges and the necessary clerks for 
each election precinct in said district and 
should any of the judges be absent at the 
opening of the polls, the electors present 
shall appoint a legal voter to fill the va- 
cancy. 

5. Each elector voting at said; elec- 
tion shall deposit in the ballot box a 
ballot whereon shall be printed or written 
the words: ''For the bonds" and the 
words "Against the bonds" and shall indi- 
cate his approval or disapproval of the 
proposition submitted by placing a cross 
(X) opposite the group of words on his 
ballot which expresses his choice. 

6. Any person offering to vote at 
said election may be challenged by any 
legally qualified elector of the district and 
any one of the judges of election shall there- 
upon administer to the person challenged 
an oath as follows : 

**You do swear (or affirm) that you 
are a citizen of the United States ; that you 
have resided in the State of Colorado twelve 
months immediately preceding this elec- 
tion ; that you are twenty-one years of age ; 
that you have resided in this district thirty 
days next preceding this election and that 
you have paid a school tax within this 
school district in the calendar year next 
preceding this election ; and that you have 
not voted at this election, so help you God 
(or under the pains and penalties of per- 
jury)." 



If he shall refuse to take such oath or 
affirmation his v©te shall be rejected. The 
judges may, however, reject the vote of any 
person offering to vote if in their judgment 
said voter is not qualified according to law, 
whether said voter takes said oath or not. 

7. Immediately after the close of the 
polls the judges in each voting pre- 
cinct shall open the ballot box and count 
the ballots and promptly thereafter certify 
the result to the board of directors of the 
district. Said board shall, promptly after 
receiving said returns, open them, canvass 
the vote, and determine the result of the 
election, and said determination shall be 
entered in the minutes of the meeting of 
said board. 

8. If it shall appear that a major- 
ity of all the votes cast are ''For the 
bonds," the board of directors, as soon as 
practicable shall issue coupon bonds of the 
district in denominations of $100.00, 
$500.00 or $1,000.00, or all or any of such 
denominations, or any combination of such 
denominations as circumstances may re- 
quire, bearing interest at a rate not ex- 
ceeding six per cent, per annum, payable 
semi-annually. Said board of directors 
shall fix the maturity date or dates which 
shall not be more than forty years from the 
date of said bonds, and said board of direc- 
tors shall make the principal of said bonds 
payable in equal, or unequal, annual install- 
ments during the period (not exceeding 
forty years) within which the debt is to be 
discharged ; provided, that the date of ma- 
turity of the first installment of the debt 
shall be not more than five years from the 
date of said bonds. The principal of all 
bonds issued under the provisions of this 
act and the interest thereon shall be pay- 
able at the office of the treasurer of the 
county in which said district, or the greater 
part thereof, may be situated and said 
board may also make either the principal 
or interest or both, payable at some bank- 
ing house in New York City, or Boston, or 
Chicago, at the option of the holder. 



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9. The board of directors of the dis- 
trict is authorized to prescribe the form 
of such bonds and the coupons thereto, 
which said bonds shall be payable to bearer. 
Said bonds shall recite the title of the act 
under which they are issued, shall be signed 
by the president of the board of directors, 
countersigned by the county treasurer and 
bear the seal of the district, and the cou- 
pons thereto annexed shall be signed by the 
president of the school board by original, 
engraved or lithographed fac-simile signa- 
ture. 

10. Whenever the board of direct- 
ors of any school district shall issue 
bonds under the provisions of this act, they 
shall enter in and upon the records of such 
board, an order requesting the county clerk 
and recorder of the county, wherein the 
greater portion of said school district is 
situate, to register the bonds in a book to 
be kept by him for that purpose, and when 
so registered, the legality thereof shall not 
be open to contest by such district or by 
any person or corporation on behalf of such 
district, for any reason whatever ; and a 
certified copy of the order of the board so 
made and entered of record shall be fur- 
nished such county clerk and recorder by 
said board of directors, and thereupon it 
shall be his duty to register said bonds, not- 
ing the name of the district, and the 
amount, date of issuance, maturity and rate 
of interest of said bonds, and such county 
clerk and recorder so registering said 
bonds shall receive from said district a. fee 
of ten cents for registering each bond. 

11. The board of directors of said 
school district shall sell said bonds at 
not less than ninety-five per cent, of their 
par value and the proceeds thereof shall be 
applied only to the purpose for which such 
bonds were issued. At least ten days prior 
to the date of any such sale the secretary of 
the district shall notify by registered letter 
the treasurer of the State of Colorado, and 
shall send copy of such notice to the regis- 
ter of the State Board of Land Commis- 



sioners also by registered letter, which said 
notice shall state the date and time of sale, 
the amount and kind of bonds to be sold 
and the rate of interest which said bonds 
shall bear. The affidavit of said secretary, 
that he has mailed said notice, at the time 
herein provided, shall be spread upon the 
records of the district, accompanied by the 
return receipts for the delivery of the regis- 
tered letters herein required, and when so 
made and spread upon the records shall be 
conclusive proof that all the requirements 
of this section, as to giving of notice to the 
state treasurer, have been fully and suffi- 
ciently complied with in every respect. 

12. The interest accruing on any bonds' 
issued under the provisions of this act, 
prior to the time when tax levies are 
available therefor, shall be paid out of the 
general revenues of the school district, and 
for the purpose of reimbursing such gen- 
eral revenue, and for the payment of sub- 
sequently accruing interest, the board of 
county commissioners of the county in 
which such district may be situated, or the 
proper tax assessing and collecting officers, 
upon whom shall devolve the duty of levy- 
ing and collecting school district taxes, 
shall levy annually a sufficient tax upon all 
the taxable property in said school district 
to fully discharge and pay such interest 
when and as the same shall become due; 
and for the ultimate redemption of such 
bonds, they shall levy annually, such a tax 
upon all the taxable property in such school 
district as will create a fund sufficient to 
discharge each annual installment of such 
bonds, at the maturity thereof, which fund 
shall be called the redemption fund. All 
taxes for interest on and for the redemption 
of such bonds shall be paid in cash only, 
and shall be collected by the county treas- 
urer, as other taxes are collected, keeping 
the same separate from other funds re- 
ceived by him, to be used only in payment 
of the interest upon and for the redemption 
of such bonds. All such taxes, when col- 
lected, shall be passed by the county treas- 
urer to the credit of said school district, to 



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be paid out only on warrants drawn for 
the payment of the principal of, or interest 
upon, said bonds according to their import. 
Whenever any of said bonds shall be paid 
and cancelled, they shall be presented to 
the county treasurer and also to the county 
clerk and recorder and records of such can- 
cellation shall be made by both such of- 
ficers in their books. 

13. The general provisions of section 5 
of Article Y of this act shall be applicable 
to all school elections, whether general or 
special, or for whatever purpose held, ex- 
cept elections on the question of creating or 
refunding a bonded indebtedness. 

14. The foregoing provisions of this 
act shall be applicable to all school dis- 
tricts of this state, including all school dis- 
tricts which lie entirely within the exterior 
boundaries of any city operating under a 
special charter adopted under the provi- 
sions of Article XX of the constitution ; 
provided, that in the last mentioned class 

'of school districts in cities operating under 
a special charter, all powers and duties 
hereinbefore conferred upon or required to 
be exercised by the board of directors are 
hereby conferred upon and shall be exer- 
cised by the board of education of such 
school district. 

15. In all school districts which lie 
entirely within the exterior boundaries of 
any city operating under a special char- 
ter adopted under the provisions of Article 
XX of the Constitution, no person shall be 
permitted to vote at any election called 
under the provisions of this act unless such 
person shall first have been registered as 
hereinafter provided. 

16. For all such elections in the districts 
mentioned in sub-division 15 next preced- 
ing, no new registrations shall be required, 
except as hereinafter provided, but any 
qualified elector of any such district whose 
name is on the registration books used at the 
then last preceding general election, wheth- 
er county or municipal, and who resides 
within the district and still resides at the 



place designated in his said registration, 
shall be deemed properly registered for any 
such election; and additional registration 
and changes in registration may be made 
as hereinafter provided. 

17. On the fourteenth day preced- 
ing any such election to be held, the 
county clerk of the proper county shall de- 
liver to the registration committee of each 
election precinct the original book of regis- 
tration for that precinct as prepared and 
completed for the then next preceding gen- 
eral election, whether county or municipal, 
and on the tenth day preceding the election 
thus to be held, or if that day be a legal 
holiday or a Sunday, then on the succeed- 
ing day, the registration committee for 
each precinct shall sit from nine o'clock 
A. M. until nine o 'clock P. M., at some suit- 
able place to be provided by the county 
commissioners and centrally located within 
the precinct as far as practicable, and shall 
place on the said book of registration, next 
after the names already thereon, the names 
of all qualified electors of the district re- 
siding in that precinct who are not regis- 
tered and who shall present themselves for 
registration, and comply with the require- 
ments prescribed by the general registra- 
tion laws of this state. 

18. Any qualified elector whose name 
appears upon any such book of registra- 
tion, but who has removed from the pre- 
cinct in which he is registered to some 
other precinct within such district, may 
appear before the county clerk at any time 
within five days prior to any such election 
and upon making oath in writing as to his 
then present residence, said county clerk 
shall draw a red line through the registra- 
tion of such person making a note as fol- 
lows : 

''Changed 19.... to 

precinct ward , " inserting the 

name and number of the precinct and ward 
therein, and shall register in red ink such 
person in the book of registration for the 
precinct in which such person then resides ; 
and a change of residence within the same 



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precinct may be made in like manner. The 
county clerk or deputy making such a 
change shall sign his name in the column 
provided for the signatures of the registra- 
tion committee, and the person so regis- 
tered shall also sign his name as in the case 
of an original registration. 

19. Immediately after completing such 
registration said registra'^ion committee 
shall deliver the original book of regis- 
tration to the county clerk, who shall 
retain the same until the day prior to the 
election, when he shall deliver the same to 
the judges of election selected by said board 
of directors for their use at such election, 
properly certified, but the county clerk 
shall not, for any such election, make and 
furnish any copy of such registration list 
at public expense, nor shall he make any 
charge for delivering said original books of 
registration as required herein; but his 
compensation for all other matters hereby 
required shall be as fixed by the registra- 
tion laws of this state. 

20. At any time prior to the de- 
livery of the original book of registration 
to the registration committee of the pre- 
cinct, as herein provided, a petition for 
purging the list may be filed as to the regis- 
tration list appearing therein, and at any 
time prior to the seventh day before election 
a petition may be filed for purging the list 
of additional registrations made as herein 
provided, which petition and the procedure 
and relief thereunder shall be the same, as 
near as may be, as provided in the registra- 
tion laws of this state. And the registration 
and election laws of this state shall govern 
in all matters connected with the making 
of said registration except as herein other- 
wise provided. 

Section 6. Refunding bonds. 

1. The Board of Directors of any 
school district in this state may issue 
negotiable coupon bonds, to be denomi- 
nated refunding bonds, for the purpose 
of refunding any of the bonded indebted- 
ness of such school district, whether due 



or not due, or which has or may hereafter 
become payable, at the option of such 
school district, or by consent of the bond- 
holders, whether such bonded indebted- 
edness be now existing or may hereafter 
be created, when there shall not be funds 
in the treasury of such school district 
available for the payment or redemption 
of such bonds; but the amount of such 
refunding bonds to be issued under the 
provisions of this act shall first be deter- 
mined by such Board of Directors and a 
certificate of such determination shall be 
made and entered in and upon the rec- 
ords of said school district, prior to the 
issuance of such refunding bonds. 

2. Whenever such Board of Direct- 
ors shall deem it expedient to issue 
refunding bonds under the provisions of 
this act, and the rate of interest thereon 
shall not exceed the rate of interest upon 
the bonds to be refunded, such refunding 
bonds may be issued without the submis- 
sion of the question of issuance thereof to 
a vote of the qualified electors of such 
school district. 

3. Whenever such Board of Direct- 
ors shall deem, it expedient to issue re- 
funding bonds under the provisions of 
this act, and the proposed rate of interest 
thereon shall exceed the rate of interest 
upon the bonds to be refunded, they shall, 
by resolution, call a special election of the 
duly qualified electors of such school dis- 
trict, as hereinafter defined, for the pur- 
pose of voting upon the question of au- 
thorizing the Board of Directors to issue 
such refunding bonds, or the question may 
be submitted at any regular election. At 
any election held under the provisions of 
this act, the question of authorizing the 
refunding of all or any part of the then 
outstanding bonded indebtedness of the 
school district may be submitted as one 
question for determination, whether such 
bonds are of the same or of different 
issues. Notices of said election shall be 
posted and published for the same length 



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of time, and in the same manner, and the 
election shall be conducted, and the result 
thereof determined and declared in all 
respects, as nearly as may be, in conform- 
ity ^dth the provisions of the laws of 
Colorado governing elections in school dis- 
tricts for the purpose of authorizing the 
contraction of a bonded indebtedness. 
Such election notice shall specify the pur- 
pose of said election, the date and the 
voting place or places, and the time during 
which the ballot box or boxes shall be kept 
open, not less, however, than three hours ; 
provided, that in stating the purpose of 
said election said notice shall state the 
amount and date of the bonds to be re- 
funded, the amount of refunding bonds 
proposed to be issued and the rate of 
interest which such refunding bonds shall 
bear. At such election the ballot shall 
contain the words ''Refunding Bonds — 
Yes,'' and the words, ''Refunding Bonds- 
No,'' and the voter shall indicate his ap- 
proval or disapproval of the proposition 
submitted by placing a cross (X) oppo- 
site the words expressing his choice. Such 
ballot shall be deposited in a separate 
ballot box provided for that purpose and 
no person shall vote on the question sub- 
mitted unless such person be a qualified 
elector of the district and shall have paid 
a school tax therein in the calendar year 
next preceding such election. 

4. If the Board of Directors of a 
school district shall determine to issue 
refunding bonds bearing a rate of inter- 
est which shall not exceed the rate upon 
the bonds to be refunded, or if, upon 
canvassing the vote cast at any election 
held under the provisions of this act, it 
shall be determined by the Board of Di- 
rectors that a majority of the legal votes 
cast upon the question submitted are in 
favor of refunding, the Board of Directors 
shall make such determination a part of 
the official records of the school district, 
and such Board of Directors shall imme- 
diately thereafter adopt and pass a resolu- 



tion providing for the issuance of said 
refunding bonds in accordance with the 
provisions of this act. Such resolution 
shall fix the date of said refunding bonds, 
shall designate the denomination or de- 
nominations thereof, the rate of interest, 
which rate shall not be more than six per 
cent per annum in any district, the ma- 
turity date or dates, which shall not be 
more than forty years from the date of said 
refunding bonds, and the place or places of 
payment within or without the State of 
Colorado of both principal and interest, 
and shall prescribe the form of said refund- 
ing bonds ; which said refunding bonds 
shall be negotiable in form, shall recite the 
title of the act under which they are issued, 
shall be executed in the name of the school 
district, signed by the president of the 
board of directors of the school district, 
countersigned by the county treasurer, and 
bear the seal of the district, attested by the 
secretary thereof. The interest accruing 
on such refunding bonds shall be evidenced 
by semi-annual interest coupons thereto at- 
tached, bearing the original, engraved or 
f ac-simile signature of the president of the 
board of directors of the school district, and 
when so executed such coupons shall be the 
binding obligations of said school district, 
according to their import. In providing for 
the issue of such refunding bonds the board 
of directors shall make the principal of the 
debt payable in equal, or unequal, annual 
installments during the period (not exceed- 
ing forty years) within which the debt is 
to be discharged ; provided, that the date of 
the maturity of the first installment of the 
debt shall be not more than five years from 
the date of said refunding bonds. 

5. All such refunding bonds may 
be exchanged, dollar for dollar, for the 
bonds to be refunded, or they may be sold 
at not less than their par value and the 
proceeds thereof shall be applied only to 
the purpose for which such refunding bonds 
were issued. Such refunding bonds shall 
not be issued until the outstanding bonds 
to be refunded have been called in and can- 



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celled in an amount equal to, or in excess of 
the bonds so issued, and all accrued interest 
on any such bonds to be refunded shall be 
paid before such refunding bonds are is- 
sued. 

6. The provision for tax levies shall be 
the same as provided in Article X, Sec- 
tion 5, Sub-section (b), Subdivision 12 
herein. 

7. The provision for registration of 
bonds shall be the same as provided in 
Article X, Section 5, Sub-section (b), Sub- 
division 10 herein. 

8. No resolution authorizing any issue 
of bonds under the provisions of this 
act shall be altered or repealed until the 
indebtedness thereby authorized and the 
bonds issued as therein provided shall have 
been fully paid and redeemed. 

Section 7. County treasurer's fees. 

The treasurer of the county shall re- 
ceive the same compensation for the col- 
lection of special taxes levied for the pur- 
pose of redeeming or refunding bonds, as 
he does for other school taxes. 

Section 8. Change of boundaries does not 
release property liable for taxation 
for payment of bonded indebtedness. 

No change in the boundary lines of a 
school district which issues bonds for any 
purpose shall release the taxable real 
estate of the district from assessment and 
levy of taxes to pay the interest and prin- 
cipal of such bonds, and if there shall be 
any change of the lines of such school dis- 
trict, so as to leave any portion of the 
taxable real estate of the district out of 
the district, which was subject to taxation 
in the district at the time of the issue 
of such bonds, the assessment and levy 
for principal and interest of such bonds 
shall be made on such property as if it 
were still within the district, and if there 
shall be any change of the lines of such 
school district, so as to annex any taxable 
real estate, after the issue of such bonds, 



the real estate so annexed shall thereafter 
be subject to the assessment and levy for 
principal and interest of such bonds. 

ARTICLE XI. 
HEALTH AND SANITARY CONTROL. 

Section 1. Health officer. 

(a) Provision for. The Board of Direc- 
ors in any school district of the first or 
second class or in any county school dis- 
trict shall appoint a district health officer 
with such assistants as may be necessary, 
and shall fix the compensation of such 
officer and assistants and pay such com- 
pensation out of any funds of the district 
not otherwise appropriated. Any regu- 
larly appointed city or county health offi- 
cer within the county as well as any other 
person shall be eligible for appointment as 
health officer for the district. 

(b) Powers and duties. Such health 
officer shall enforce all laws, rules and 
regulations concerning contagious or in- 
fectious diseases so far as they relate to 
the public schools or the pupils or teachers 
thereof; he shall direct and assist teach- 
ers in the physical examination of pupils; 
assist in the adjustment of school condi- 
tions and school activities to the needs of 
the health and growth of pupils; advise 
in the teaching of hygiene, including the 
effects of alcohol, stimulants and narcotics 
upon the human body ; and he shall exam- 
ine, at times to be stated by the Board of 
school Directors or at other times at his 
discretion, into the condition of privies, 
water closets, urinals, basements, water 
supplies, drinking facilities, the heating, 
ventilating, lighting and general sanitary 
conditions of school buildings and shall 
report the results of his inspection to the 
superintendent of schools of the district 
and to the health authorities of the city 
or county. 

Section 2. School nurse. 

(a) Provision for. The Board of Direct- 
ors in any school district of the first or 



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second class or in any county school dis- 
trict may appoint one or more school 
nurses, or may designate any teacher or 
teachers to act as such, and may fix their 
compensation and pay such compensation 
out of any funds belonging to the district 
and not otherwise appropriated. 

(b) Powers and duties. Such school 
nurse or nurses shall be under the general 
supervision of the superintendent of 
schools of the district and shall give first 
aid in the case of accident or sudden ill- 
ness ; and shall assist the health officer 
of the district in the discharge of his 
duties. 

Section 3. School clinics. 

The Board of Directors in any school 
district of the first or the second class or 
of any county school district may estab- 
lish and maintain, out of any funds of 
the district not otherwise appropriated, 
clinics or clinical schools for the study 
and treatment of children who are men- 
tally or physically defective or abnormal. 
Those in charge of such clinics or clincial 
schools shall advise school authorities, 
teachers and parents regarding the proper 
care and treatment of such children. The 
service of such clinics or clinical schools 
shall be accessible to persons residing out- 
side the district upon the payment of a 
reasonable sum to be determined by the 
Board of Directors. 

Section 4. Physical examination of school 
children. 

(a) Charts and cards prepared by and 
report made to the superintendent of pub- 
lic instruction. 

The superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall prepare or cause to be prepared 
suitable test cards, blanks, record books, 
and other needful appliances and supplies 
to be used in testing the sight, hearing 
and breathing of pupils in the public 
schools, and the necessary instructions for 
their use ; and shall furnish the same free 



of expense to every public school in the 
state. The teacher or principal in every 
public school shall, during the first month 
of each school year, test the sight, hearing 
and breathing of all pupils under his 
charge, such examination to be made by 
observation, without using drugs or instru- 
ments, and without coming in contact 
with said child ; and keep a record of such 
examinations according to the instructions 
furnished and make a written report of 
such examinations to the superintendent of 
public instruction as he may require. 

(b) Report made to school authorities 
and parents. Every teacher in the public 
schools shall report the mental, moral and 
physical defectiveness of any child under 
his supervision, as soon as such defective- 
ness is apparent, to the principal, or where 
there is no principal, to the county super- 
intendent. Such principal or county su- 
perintendent shall promptly notify the 
parents or guardians of each child found 
to be defective, of the child's defective- 
ness, and shall recommend to such parents 
or guardian that such child be thoroughly 
examined as soon as possible by a compe- 
tent physician or surgeon with special ref- 
erence to the eyes, ears, nose, throat, teeth 
and spine. If the parents or guardian of 
such child shall fail, neglect or refuse to 
have such examination made and treat- 
ment begun within a reasonable time after 
such notice shall have been given, the said 
principal or superintendent shall notify 
the State Bureau of Child and Animal 
Protection of the facts ; providing, how- 
ever, that whenever it shall be made to 
appear to the said principal or superin- 
tendent, upon the written statement of the 
parent or guardian, that such parent or 
guardian has not the necessary funds 
wherewith to pay the expenses of such 
examination and treatment, the said prin- 
cipal or superintendent shall cause such 
examination and treatment to be made by 
the county physician of the district where- 
in said child resides; and it shall be the 



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duty of such county physician to make 
such examination and treatment, and if 
he be unable to properly treat such child 
he shall forthwith report such fact to the 
county commissioners of the county with 
his recommendation. 

(c) Appropriation. There shall be ap- 
propriated from the general fund of the 
state out of any moneys not othermse ap- 
propriated the sum of eighteen hundred 
dollars ($1,800) for each biennial period 
and the state auditor is hereby directed 
to draw his order for such sums and at 
such times as the superintendent of public 
instruction may require to carry out the 
provisions of this act. 

ARTICLE XII. 
TEXT-BOOKS AND APPARATUS. 

Section 1. State lists of books. 

(a) Each publisher or book company 
wishing to have any book adopted for use 
in the schools of the state, shall file with 
the superintendent of public instruction a 
proposal accompanied by a copy of the 
book, together with a statement in ^vriting 
of the price at which and the terms upon 
which such book will be furnished to the 
Board of Directors of any school district 
of the State of Colorado and to any county 
or union high school committee. 

(b) When the State Board of Education 
shall approve the price and terms as afore- 
said of such proposal, it shall direct the 
superintendent of public instruction to 
enter into a contract with the publisher 
or company concerned to stand in readi- 
ness to furnish such book to the various 
parties named in paragraph (a) next 
above, at the price and upon the terms 
indicated in the statement submitted for 
the approval of the board, and to guaran- 
tee that such price is not higher than is 
charged for the same books elsewhere in 
any of the United States, under like con- 
ditions. 



(c) As a guarantee of the fulfillment of 
such contract th-e publisher or company 
concerned shall be required to deposit 
with the Secretary of State a satisfactory 
bond for a sum stipulated by the State 
Board of Education, which bond shall be 
forfeited in part or in whole upon the 
failure of said publisher or company to 
fulfill the conditions of the contract. 

(d) The superintendent of public in- 
struction is hereby authorized to bring 
suit in the name of the State of Colorado 
to recover on the bond in whole or in part 
when in the judgment of the State Board 
of Education any such contract as re- 
ferred to in sub-section (c) next above is 
forfeited. The State Board of Education 
may terminate any such contract and 
may exclude any publisher or book com- 
pany from transacting business in school 
books in the State of Colorado when any 
such contract as referred to in paragraph 
(b) next above is violated or not carried 
out when proper opportunity is presented. 

Section 2. Sale of apparatus. 

The State Board of Education may reg- 
ulate in the same manner as for school 
books described in Section (1) next above 
the sale of school apparatus; provided, 
that in lieu of samples of apparatus, com- 
plete descriptions thereof may be filed. 

Section 3. Samples to be retained by state. 

Any samples of books or apparatus, or 
descriptions of apparatus, submitted for 
the approval of the State Board of Educa- 
tion shall be retained by the/ superinten- 
dent of public instruction until the expi- 
ration of any contract that may be en- 
tered into by the party submitting such 
samples, or descriptions of apparatus, to 
furnish such books or apparatus. Upon 
the expiration of any contract, any books 
or apparatus submitted as samples shall 
be at the disposal of the parties submitting 
the same. 



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Section 4. Free text books. 

(a) Elections. The Board of Directors of 
any school district of the first or second 
class or of any county school district and 
the high school committee of any county 
or union high school district may at 
any regular or special election submit 
to the regularly qualified electors of the 
district the question of furnishing free 
text books for the pupils of the district. 

(b) Purchase of books and apparatus. 
When any Board of School Directors is 
properly authorized to furnish books free 
to the pupils of the district, it may make 
a selection from its own list or from the 
list furnished by the superintendent of 
public instruction, and if selection shall 
be made from the latter list, it shall order 
and purchase such books at the prices and 
upon the terms on file in the office of the 
said superintendent, and such books or ap- 
paratus shall conform in every respect to 
the samples or descriptions on file in said 
office. 

When books are furnished free to the 
pupils of a district, the parents of any 
pupil shall be allowed to purchase from 
the Board of Directors of the school dis- 
trict a single copy of any of such books for 
the use of said pupil at the price at which 
such books are furnished to said board. 

Section 5. Copies of list of books and 
apparatus furnished to school auth- 
orities. 

The superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall send out annually, or at more 
frequent intervals as he may see fit, lists 
of books or apparatus contracted to be 
furnished as above to the secretary of 
the Board of School Directors and to the 
school superintendent in each such school 
district of the state as furnishes or con- 
templates furnishing free text books to 
pupils of said district. 



ARTICLE XIII. 
TRAINING OF TEACHERS. 

Section 1. State Normal Schools — State 
Teachers' College. 

(a) Part of public school system — ap- 
portionment of funds — supervisory powers 
over. 

Said normal school is hereby consti- 
tuted an integral part of the public school 
system of this state, and shall share in the 
apportionment of the state school fund in 
proportion to the number of teachers em- 
ployed and the aggregate attendance of 
pupils upon the same conditions as any 
school district of the state, and shall be sub- 
ject as such to the general supervisory 
powers vested by the constitution in the 
State Board of Education. 

(b ) Diplomas — examination — gradua- 
tion. 

The State Normal School is authorized 
to grant diplomas to such students as shall 
have completed the full course of instruc- 
tion in said normal school, shall have been 
recommended by the faculty, and shall 
have passed a final examination upon the 
branches embraced in the prescribed 
course of study. Such diploma, when 
signed by the president and secretary of 
the Board of Trustees, shall be evidence 
that the receiver thereof is a graduate of 
the State Normal School, and entitled to 
all the honors and privileges of such grad- 
uates. 

(c) Diploma a license to teach — license 
annulled. 

The said diploma shall license the re- 
ceiver thereof to teach in any of the pub- 
lic schools of this state for a period of 
three years from the date thereof without 
further examination, and if at the end of 
the three years a teacher holding this 
diploma shall present to the Board of 
Trustees which granted the same, satis- 
factory evidence of successful teaching 
during said period, then this diploma may 
be extended for life or good behavior by 



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said Board, subject, however, to the ap- 
proval of the superintendent of public in- 
struction, and it shall be so endorsed by 
the said Board, and by the superintendent 
of public instruction as such, and the 
holder thereof shall be entitled to teach 
in any of the public schools of this state 
during good behavior without further ex- 
amination, when a certified copy thereof 
shall have been filed in the office of the 
county superintendent of schools in the 
county wherein such graduate is teaching 
or proposes to teach. Such license may be 
annulled by the superintendent of public 
instruction, who shall give immediate 
notice thereof to the several county su- 
perintendents of the state, and such license 
may be suspended in any county by the 
superintendent of schools for such county, 
pending the action of the superintendent 
of public instruction. 

Section 2. Classes in high schools for 
teacher training. 

(a) When the Board of Directors of a 
county school district, or any county high 
school committee, or the Board of Direct- 
ors of any district of the fi^rst or second class, 
acting in their several capacities or by 
agreement in co-operation, shall have voted 
to establish and maintain a teacher training 
class for instruction in the principles of ed- 
ucation and methods of teaching for not 
less than one school year of nine months, ap- 
plication may be made to the State Board 
of Education for recognition and state 
support. Such application shall state in 
detail the accommx)dations to be provided 
for such training class, the course of 
study, the means of instruction, the num- 
ber and qualifications of the instructors to 
be employed, the standards for admission 
of students, the number and names of stu- 
. dents who have stated their intention to 
enroll in such class and such other infor- 
mation as may be required by the rules 
and regulations of the State Board of 
Education. 



(b) When satisfied that the interests of 
the elementary schools will be advanced 
by the maintenance of any such teacher 
training class, acting on the recommenda- 
tion of the superintendent of public in- 
struction, the State Board of Education 
shall authorize recognition and support of 
such training class as follows: 

1. The superintendent of public in- 
struction shall issue diplomas to the grad- 
uates of such training classes, which di- 
plomas shall exempt the holders from all 
examinations for the elementary certifi- 
cate of the third grade in such county 
and contiguous counties as may be desig- 
nated by the State Board of Education. 

2. The superintendent of public in- 
struction shall authorize the payment of 
a part of the salary of the instructors em- 
ployed for such recognized teacher 
training class, not to exceed two in num- 
ber, and not to exceed five hundred dol- 
lars for each such instructor for any year. 

3. There shall be not more than ten 
county teacher training classes receiving 
state recognition and state support with- 
in the state at any time. No more than 
one such class in any county shall receive 
recognition and support and no such rec- 
ognition and support shall be given to 
such county teacher training class in 
any county in which there shall exist an 
institution or a department of an institu- 
tion supported by public funds, devoted to 
the training of teachers for the public 
schools. 

ARTICLE XIV. 

EXAMINATION AND CERTIFICATION 
OF TEACHERS. 

Section 1. Certificates required of all 
teachers. 

No warrant for expenditure of public 
funds shall be drawn in favor of any per- 
son for services as teacher in any of the 
public schools of the state, unless such per- 
son shall hold a proper certificate or diplo- 
ma granted as provided in this act and in 



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force during the full period over which 
such services are rendered. In like man- 
ner, any superintendent or principal shall 
hold a certificate of the grade appertain- 
ing to the schools under his charge. Any 
teacher or supervisor, principal or super- 
intendent, who shall commence to serve in 
any school without possessing a proper 
certificate shall forfeit all claim to com- 
pensation out of the school fund for the 
time he serves without such certificate. 
But if a teacher's certificate shall expire 
by its own limitation within a term of 
employment, such expiration shall not 
have the effect to stop the school, or to 
stop the teacher's pay; provided, that a 
teacher whose certificate so expires, if the 
term of school for which such teacher is 
employed extends more than one month 
after such expiration, shall secure a new 
certificate, or a renewal of the one held 
while the same is in force. 

All teachers' certificates and diplomas 
in force at the time of enactment of this 
section shall remain in force for the full 
time for which they were issued and for 
the grades for which they were issued, 
subject only to revocation for cause. 

Section 2. Kinds of certificates granted. 

(a) County certificates. The county su- 
perintendent, subject to the rules and reg- 
ulations of the State Board of Education, 
may issue certificates to teach in the high 
schools or in the elementary schools of his 
jurisdiction. County certificates to teach 
in the elementary schools may be of third 
grade, second grade, or first grade. 

(b) State certificates. The State Board 
of Education may issue temporary and 
permanent certificates to teach in elemen- 
tary schools, or in both elementary and 
high schools. It may also issue honorary 
certificates of the two classes hereinafter 
provided. 

Section 3. County certificates. 

(a) For the elementary schools. 
Beginning with the school year 1921, 



all applicants for certificates or licenses to 
teach must have completed a senior high 
school course or its equivalent. Beginning 
with July 1, 1919, the following shall be 
the requirements for certificates issued by 
county superintendents : 

(1) Third-grade certificates for the ele- 
mentary schools may be issued by any 
county superintendent to such applicants 
as have passed the regular examination in 
spelling, reading, * writing, arithmetic, 
grammar and composition, geography, 
history of the United States, civics with 
special reference to the elementary con- 
cepts of society and the state, physiology 
with special reference to the laws of 
health including the effects of alcohol and 
stimulants and narcotics, elementary sci- 
ence, school law, and school management. 
No applicant shall be granted this certifi- 
cate unless he has attended a professional 
school for teachers for at least six weeks; 
but failure to attend such school shall not 
bar from the privileges of this section any 
persons who can present to the county su- 
perintendent satisfactory evidence of 
eight months of successful teaching ex- 
perience acquired prior to July 1, 1919. 
Any applicant holding the diploma of any 
teacher training class regularly signed by 
the superintendent of public instruction 
shall be exempt from examination for this 
grade of certificate and for its renewal in 
the county in which the diploma was 
granted and in contiguous counties desig- 
nated by the State Board of Education. 

Third-grade certificates shall be valid 
for one year in any elementary schools 
under the jurisdiction of the county su- 
perintendent issuing them. They may be 
renewed once without further examina- 
tion if the holder has, during the life of 
the certificate, attended a professional 
school for teachers for at least six weeks 
and has received credit in at least tvfo 
subjects. 

Not more than two elementary third- 
grade certificates including renewals shall 



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be issued to one person after July 1, 1919; 
nor shall any such certificates be issued after 
July 1, 1921, except upon permission of 
the superintendent of public instruction, 
after the supply of teachers otherwise le- 
gally qualified shall have been exhausted 
in the county of the superintendent mak- 
ing the request for such authorization. 
When so authorized, such county superin- 
tendent may issue special third-grade cer- 
tificates to as many persons as may be 
needed to fill existing vacancies. 

(2) Second-grade certificates for the 
elementary schools may be issued by any 
county superintendent to such applicants 
as have passed an examination in physical 
and commercial geography, American lit- 
erature, and in all the subjects prescribed 
for examination of applicants for the 
third-grade certificate. The county su- 
perintendent in lieu of a complete exam- 
ination may transfer marks from a third- 
grade certificate if the holder of such has, 
during the life of that certificate taught 
successfully for eight months, and at- 
tended a professional school for teachers 
for not less than six weeks and received 
credit in at least two subjects. 

Second-grade certificates issued by a 
county superintendent shall be valid for 
two years in any elementary schools in 
the jurisdiction of the county superin- 
tendent issuing them. They may be re- 
newed without further examination upon 
presentation of evidence that the holder 
during the life of the certificate has taught 
successfully for one year and has attended 
a professional school for teachers for at 
least six weeks, and received credit in at 
least two subjects. 

(3) First-grade certificates for the ele- 
mentary schools may be issued by any 
county superintendent to such applicants 
as have taught successfully for eight 
months and have passed the examination 
in English literature, in English history, 
in either algebra or geometry; and in phy- 
ics, or chemistry, or biology; and have 



attended a professional school for teachers 
at least six weeks, such attendance to be 
in addition to that required for the issu- 
ance to the same person of any former 
certificate, and have received credit in 
two subjects; the county superintendent, 
in lieu of a complete examination, may 
transfer marks from a second-grade cer- 
tificate if the holder of such has, during 
the life of that certificate, taught success- 
fully for eight months and has pursued 
successfully review courses in some recog- 
nized professional school for teachers in 
at least two of the subjects required for 
examination for the certificate of the sec- 
ond grade. 

First-grade certificates issued by a 
county superintendent shall be valid for 
three years in any elementary schools in 
the jurisdiction of the county superin- 
tendent issuing them. They may be re- 
newed unconditionally once at the option 
of the county superintendent issuing them. 

(b) For the high schools. High-school 
certificates may be issued by any county 
superintendent to such applicants as hold 
the first-grade certificate for, the elemen- 
tary schools and furnish evidence of the 
equivalent of four years of preparation in 
a standard college requiring for admission 
the equivalent of the regular four-year 
high school course. Such preparation 
shall include courses in education equal to 
at least one-sixth of the credits required 
for graduation by the college or colleges 
attended by the applicant. 

High-school certificates issued by a 
county superintendent shall be valid for 
three years in any elementary or high 
school under the jurisdiction of the county 
superintendent issuing them, and must be 
held by all persons teaching any branches 
to pupils above the eighth grade ; pro- 
vided, that a first-grade elementary cer- 
tificate of the county or an elementary 
certificate of the state shall be valid for 
high-school teaching after the supply of 
legally qualified high school teachers shall 



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have been exhausted. High-school cer- 
tificates may be renewed unconditionally 
once at the option of the county superin- 
tendent issuing them. 

Section 4. State certificates. 

(a) Temporary. 

(1) Temporary elementary certificates 
may be issued by the superintendent of 
public instruction to such applicants as 
have taught thirty-six months on an ele- 
mentary certificate of the first grade and 
have secured thirty hours credits in col- 
lege or normal school, said credit to be 
defined by the State Board of Education. 
Such temporary elementary certificates 
shall be valid for five years in any ele- 
mentarj^ or junior high schools of the 
state. They may be renewed uncondi- 
tionally at the option of the State Board 
of Education. 

(2) Temporary elementary and high 
school certificates may be issued by the 
superintendent of public instruction to 
such applicants as are graduates from the 
four-year course of standard colleges sit- 
uated within the State of Colorado and 
have included in their college work 
twenty hours of education, and to such 
applicants as have taught thirty-six 
months on a first-grade elementary or 
high-school certificate issued by a county 
superintendent and have secured sixty 
hours credit as defined by the State 
Board of Education in college or normal 
school. Those who offer the twenty hours 
of education prescribed in this clause 
must distribute it among at least three of 
the following groups of subjects, one of 
which shall be Practice Teaching : 

a. General and Educational Psychol- 

ogy; 

b. Principles of Education ; 

c. History of Education; 

d. Administration and Supervision of 

of Education; 

e. Practice Teaching and Special 

Methods. 



Temporary elementary and high-school 
certificates issued in the manner indicated 
above shall be valid for five years in any 
elementary or high school of the state. 
They may be renewed unconditionally at 
the option of the State Board of Educa- 
tion. 

(b) Permanent. 

(1) Permanent elementary certificates 
may be issued by the superintendent of 
public instruction to such applicants as 
have taught successfully thirty-six months 
on a statei temporary elementary certifi- 
cate. They shall be valid in any of the 
elementary schools of the state during the 
life of the holder. 

(2) Permanent elementary and high- 
school certificates may be issued by the 
superintendent of public instruction to 
such applicants as have taught thirty-six 
months successfully on a temporary ele- 
mentary and high school certificate. They 
shall be valid in any elementary or high 
schools of the state during the life of the 
holder. 

(3) Honorary certificates may be 
granted without examination to such per- 
sons as in the opinion of the State Board 
of Education have rendered eminent con- 
structive service in the cause of education 
in the state for six years. These certifi- 
cates shall be valid during the life of the 
holder in any teaching or supervisory ca- 
pacity connected with the public schools 
of the state. 

Section 5. Examinations. 

(a) By the county superintendent. 

On the first Thursday in August, De- 
cember and April in each year the county 
superintendent shall meet all persons, of 
not less than eighteen years of age, desir- 
ous of passing an examination as teachers, 
in some suitable room at the county seat, 
notice of which shall be given in some 
newspaper in the county, or in case there 
is no paper published in the county he 
shall give such notice as may by him be 



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deemed necessary, at which time he shall 
examine all such applicants in the various 
branches prescribed for the different 
grades of county certificates. Provided, 
that any applicant taking the examination 
in one county may have his papers re- 
ferred without prejudice to another coun- 
ty for certification. If the attendance up- 
on the examination at the county seat 
shall work a great hardship to five or 
more teachers in the county, the county 
superintendent may provide for such 
teachers to take the examination at some 
convenient place, and the county super- 
intendent may appoint some suitable 
person to conduct such examination, 
who shall without delay report to the 
eounty superintendent the written an- 
swers of each applicant. Such person 
shall be entitled to five dollars ($5.00) 
per day for conducting such examination, 
and such services shall be certified by the 
county superintendent to the county com- 
missioners. 

All questions used in the examinations 
of the county superintendent shall be pre- 
pared by the superintendent of public in- 
struction, and all papers shall be trans- 
mitted immediately after the close of the 
examination by the county superintend- 
ent to the superintendent of public in- 
struction for grading. The superintendent 
of public instruction shall return the 
graded papers to the county superintend- 
ent, together with a list of those appli- 
cants who have met the conditions of the 
examination. To all persons thus certi- 
fied by the superintendent of public in- 
struction, the county superintendent shall 
issue a certificate of the proper grade ; 
provided, that the county superintendent 
must be satisfied of the good moral char- 
acter of each such individual and of his 
competency to teach. But no person shall 
be admitted to any examination nor shall 
his certificate be renewed, endorsed, or in 
any way validated until the county super- 
intendent has collected a fee of one dollar 



for such service. All fees thus collected 
shall be remitted to the superintendent of 
public instruction and turned over to the 
state treasurer to constitute a state nor- 
mal institute fund. No county superin- 
tendent shall have power to issue any cer- 
tificate except as provided in this act, to 
any person who shall not have been re- 
ported by the superintendent of public 
instruction as having passed at a regular 
examination for teachers. 

(b) By the State Board of Education. 
The State Board of Education shall have 
power to adopt, and shall publish when 
adopted, general rules and regulations 
governing examinations, specifying the 
general character of its requirements in 
addition to or in amplification of those 
fixed by law. 

Section 6. Revocation of certificates. 

The superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall have power to revoke state cer- 
tificates, and the county superintendent 
shall have power to revoke certificates 
issued by himself or his predecessors; in 
all cases subject to appeal to the State 
Board of Education. 

Section 7. Transfer of credentials. 

(a) By the county superintendent. The 
county superintendent may, in case of 
emergency, recognize county teachers' 
certificates issued in this or other states 
by endorsing thereon the words ''Good 
until the next regular county examina- 
tion ' ' ; provided, that the certificates so en- 
dorsed shall be in full force at the date 
of such endorsement, and shall not be re- 
newed, extended, nor show a previous en- 
dorsement thereon. He may also recog- 
nize in his discretion first grade and high 
school certificates issued in Colorado, by 
issuing certificates of like grade good only 
for the unexpired time of the certificate so 
replaced. 

(b) By the State Board of Education. 
The State Board of Education shall have 



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full power in its discretion to recognize 
state certificates and teaching diplomas 
granted in other states and to replace 
them by one of the legal diplomas pro- 
vided for in Colorado. It shall have power 
in its discretion to recognize graduates 
and students from colleges and normal 
schools in other states on an equality with 
those from Colorado institutions, as satis- 
fying the provisions of the law relative to 
all requirements of college and normal 
training for state certificates. 

ARTICLE XV. 

APPOINTMENT, REMUNERATION, 

TENURE, AND RETIREMENT 

OF TEACHERS. 

Section 1. Appointment. 

All teachers, principals, and supervis- 
ors, except in local districts, shall be ap- 
pointed by the Board of Directors on 
the nomination of the superintendent, if 
such officer be employed. 

Section 2. Remuneration. 

(a) Regular salary. The State Board of 
Education shall collect and furnish to su- 
perintendents and Boards of Directors in- 
formation regarding schedules of salaries 
for teachers, and shall have power to 
make recommendations concerning the 
same. Superintendents shall commend to 
their boards the desirable features of such 
schedules ; and Boards of Directors shall 
have power to adopt schedules of salaries 
based on training, length of" service, suc- 
cess grades assigned by the superintend- 
ent, grade of certificate held, and charac- 
ter of position filled. But the minimum 
salary shall for no teacher be less than 
sixty dollars ($60) per month, for a mini- 
mum term of nine months ; provided that 
the State Board of Education miay au- 
thorize a shorter term. The annual salary 
of each teacher shall be paid in not less 
than nine monthly installments, excepting 
that in case of shorter term than nine 



months, the salary shall be paid in equal 
monthly installments. 

The school year shall begin on the first 
day of July and shall end on the thirtieth 
day of June of each year. The school 
month shall be four weeks of not less than 
five days each. The schools shall not be 
in session on the following holidays, which 
for the purposes of this act shall be re- 
garded as national holidays : The Fourth 
Day of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving 
Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, 
Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day. 

No deduction from the regular monthly 
salary of teachers and other employes of 
any school district shall be made on ac- 
count of the observance of national hol- 
idays. 

The following holidays shall be observed 
in the schools by appropriate exercises, 
such portion of the regular session being 
set apart therefor as may be desirable 
Colorado Day, the first day of August 
Columbus Day, the twelfth day of October 
Election Day in November, State and Na- 
tional; Lincoln Day, the twelfth day of 
February ; Arbor Day, the third Friday in 
April ; Good Roads Day, the second Friday 
in May; Flag Day, in June (proclaimed by 
the governor). 

(b) Pensions. 

The Board of School Directors of each 
district of the first class and second class, 
and of each county school district is here- 
by authorized to establish a public school 
teachers' retirement fund, and shall be 
authorized to pay out of such fund a sum 
not to exceed forty dollars per month to 
any man teacher sixty years of age or 
any woman teacher fifty-five years of age, 
who has been in active service as a teacher 
for a period of twenty-five years, of which 
not less than fifteen years shall have been 
within said school district. 

The Board of School Directors of any 
such district may also, subject to the 
above limitations, make provision for such 
teachers as may become permanently in- 



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capacitated from teaching while in the 
service of the district ; provided, however, 
that the said beneficiary shall have served 
in the school district for a period of not 
less than ten years. 

Any teacher of such school district com- 
ing under the provisions of this act, who 
inay, by making application, or by action 
of the Board of School Directors, be 
entitled to receive the benefit from the 
public school teachers' retirement fund 
as provided for in this act, shall not be 
entitled to receive a benefit while drawing 
a salary as a teacher in active service in 
the district paying such benefit. 

The moneys for the use of the public 
school teachers' retirement fund shall be 
provided by a special levy upon the said 
school district, such special levy, however, 
not to exceed one-fifth of one mill, and 
from any gifts or bequests which may be 
made to said fund. 

The State Board of Education shall 
have the power to employ experts to de- 
vise and to propose a law, based on actuarial 
computations and other data, providing 
pensions for all teachers who have served a 
certain length of time in any of the public 
schools of the state. This proposed legis- 
lation shall be presented to the General 
Assembly for enactment. 

Section 3. Tenure. 

After the expiration of a period of em- 
ployment in any one district not exceed- 
ing three years, the service of any teacher 
or principal shall continue in the public 
schools of said district during good be- 
havior and efficiency. 

No teacher or principal shall be dis- 
missed, nor shall the salary of any teacher, 
or principal be reduced except for immoral 
conduct or inefficiency ; nor until a charge 
in writing signed by the person making 
the same has been filed for at least thirty 
days with the school board employing 
such teacher or principal; nor until such 
school board shall sustain such charge at 



a hearing at which the teacher or princi- 
pal complained against shall have an op- 
portunity to be heard in person or by 
attorney; provided, that the unsuccessful 
party shall have the right to appeal to 
the district court within and for the coun- 
ty in the same manner as appeals are now 
provided for from Boards of County Com- 
missioners. 

Nothing herein shall prevent any Board 
of School Directors from reducing the num- 
ber of teachers or principals in any school 
district when required by reason of a de- 
crease in the number of pupils in such 
school district, nor from reducing salaries 
in case of necessary reduction of district 
expenses. 

ARTICLE XVI. 

TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN 
SERVICE. 

Section 1. State Reading Circle. 

(a) Board — appointment. Within one 
year after the passage of this act, the su- 
perintendent of public instruction shall 
appoint a State Teachers' Reading Circle 
Board, which shall consist of five members 
who have been trained in education, and 
who at the time of such appointment shall 
be engaged in educational work within the 
state. 

In his first selection of the members of 
this board, the superintendent shall indi- 
cate the term of each appointee as one, 
two, three, four or five years respectively, 
and shall appoint his successor for a term 
of five years. The superintendent of 
public instruction shall fill by appoint- 
ment for the unexpired term all irregular 
vacancies occurring in the membership of 
the board. The superintendent of public 
instruction shall be a member and ex- 
officio chairman of such Reading Circle 
Board with power to vote. 

(b) Board — Powers and duties. The 
State Teachers' Reading Circle Board 
shall meet annually at the call of the 
superintendent of public instruction for 



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the purpose of selecting books for the use 
of the teachers of the state in the reading 
circle work for the next school year. 

All the expenses of the members of said 
Reading Circle Board incurred in attend- 
ing such meetings shall be paid by the 
state treasurer out of the general funds 
of the state in the same manner as the 
expenses of other state officers are paid 
and upon due warrants of the state audi- 
tor, which officer is hereby directed and 
authorized to issue said warrants upon 
receipt of properly issued vouchers of the 
State Board of Education covering such 
expenses ; provided, that before such 
vouchers are issued an itemized statement 
of the expenses of each member of said 
Reading Circle Board shall be filed with 
the superintendent of public instruction, 
in the same manner as provided for the 
payment of the. traveling expenses of the 
superintendent of public instruction and 
other state officers. No member shall re- 
ceive compensation for his services. 

(c) Contract for books. All publishers 
desiring to supply books for Teachers' 
Reading Circle use shall submit a suffi- 
cient number of sample copies to provide 
each member oJ^ the Reading Circle Board 
with a copy of each book, and shall file 
with the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion, in writing, a statement of the prices, 
conditions, and terms at which such books 
will be supplied, at a date not later than 
that which may be indicated each year 
by the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion. 

After certain books shall have been 
approved by the board, the superintnedent 
of public instruction shall enter into con- 
tract with the publishers thereof to fur- 
nish such books at a price not higher than 
that stipulated in the written offer of the 
publisher, on file with the superintendent 
of public instruction. The superintendent 
of public instruction shall indicate de- 
positories from which such books may be 
purchased by the teachers of the state. 



In addition to the above duties, the 
Reading Circle Board shall recommend 
additional books for professional study by 
teachers. 

Section 2. Teachers' meetings and insti- 
tutes. 

(a) Provision for. Superintendents in 
first and second class and in county school 
districts shall hold or cause to be held 
teachers' meetings at least once each 
month during the regular school year. 
At such meetings the work of the State 
Teachers' Reading Circle may be pur- 
sued ; courses and methods of instruction 
considered; the needs of the school and 
community discussed; plans for the co- 
operation of educational and social forces 
and agencies studied, or any work taken 
up which will contribute to the educa- 
tional interests of the district. 

Such superintendent may require the 
teachers under his supervision to meet in 
convenient groups for the study of spe- 
cial topics and may designate leaders for 
such groups and require reports of attend- 
ance and proceedings. 

(b) Attendance. Each teacher attend- 
ing such meetings shall be allowed an 
extra day's pay for each full day's at- 
tendance. The amount due each teacher 
for each day's attendance shall be deter- 
mined by dividing his monthly salary by 
twenty and the amount due each month 
shall be added to the teacher's regular 
monthly salary warrant and paid out of 
the special school fund of the district or 
any other funds not otherwise appropri- 
ated. Provided, that no additional pay 
shall be allowed for attendance at such 
meetings if held on a regular school day, 
but for attendance on such days he shall 
receive his regular salary. 

Teachers receiving pay under the pro- 
vision of this section shall make reason- 
able preparation for and perform such 
reasonable parts in the program of the 



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various meetings as the superintendent in 
charge may indicate. 

(c) Substitutes for such meetings. On 
recommendation of the superintendent in 
any district, the teachers under his super- 
vision may be required by the Board of 
Directors of the district to attend meet- 
ings of voluntary teachers' organizations 
in the district or county, or meetings of 
the Colorado State Teachers' Association 
or of its several divisions and such teachers 
shall receive additional pay upon the same 
conditions as provided in the case of teach- 
ers' meetings in sub-section (b) next above. 

Section 3. State Normal District Insti- 
tutes. 

(a) Districts — ^boundaries. 

For the purpose of organizing and 
maintaining teachers' normal institutes, 
the state shall be divided into the follow- 
ing institute districts, viz. : The counties 
of Sedgwick, Phillips, Logan, Yuma, 
Washington and Morgan, to constitute Nor- 
mal District No, one. The counties of Weld, 
Larimer, Jackson and Boulder to constitute 
Normal District No. two. The counties of 
Adams, Arapahoe and Denver to consti- 
tute Normal District No. three. The 
counties of Gilpin, Clear Creek and Jeffer- 
son to constitute Normal District No. 
four. The counties of Douglas, Elbert, 
El Paso and Teller to constitute Normal 
District No. five. The counties of Kit Car- 
son, Lincoln and Cheyenne to constitute 
Normal District No. six. The counties of 
Fremont, Custer and Pueblo to constitute 
Normal District No. seven. The counties 
of Kiowa, Otero, Crowley, Bent, Prowers 
and Baca to constitute Normal District No. 
eight. The counties of Huerfano and Las 
Animas to constitute Normal District No. 
nine. The counties of Mineral, Saguache, 
Costilla, Conejos, Alamosa and Rio Grande 
to constitute Normal District No. ten. The 
counties of La Plata, Montezuma, Archu- 
leta, Dolores and San Juan to constitute 
Normal District No. eleven. The counties of 



San Miguel, Ouray, Hinsdale, Mesa, Delta, 
Montrose and Gunnison to constitute Nor- 
mal District No. twelve. The counties of 
Chaffee, Lake, Park, Pitkin, Eagle, Sum- 
mit, Garfield, Routt, Moffat, Rio Blanco 
and Grand to constitute Normal District 
No. thirteen. 

Provided, that new counties formed 
within the limits of any institute district 
shall be a part of said district. 

And provided, further, that the State 
Board of Education may change the boun- 
daries of institute districts or form new 
districts at its discretion, and provided, 
further, that upon receipt of a written 
petition signed by a majority of the teach- 
ers concerned the superintendent of pub- 
lic instruction may make provisional and 
temporary changes in the boundaries of 
normal institute districts. 

(b) Meetings and instructors. Institute 
meetings may be held annually in each in- 
stitute district in accordance with rules 
and regulations prescribed by the State 
Board of Education. The State Board of 
Education shall also prescribe qualifica- 
tions for conductors and instructors, and 
through the superintendeht of public in- 
struction shall issue certificates to con- 
ductors and instructors. 

(c) Executive committee. The superin- 
tendent of public instruction shall appoint 
annually from among the county superin- 
tendents of each institute district an ex- 
ecutive committee of three members (or 
a less number if three are not available) 
who, with the advice and consent of the 
superintendent of public instruction shall 
determine the time and place of holding 
such normal institute, and shall select in- 
structors and on the nomination of the 
superintendent of public instruction, a 
conductor for the same. 

(d) Financial support. To defray the 
expenses of said institute the executive 
committee shall require the payment of 
one dollar registration fee for each person 
attending the normal institute, and each 



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county superintendent is hereby author- 
ized to add five per cent to the average 
standing in examination of teachers who 
shall attend the normal institute from his 
county. When a normal institute of not 
less than two weeks is held in any insti- 
tute district of the state, the executive 
committee in charge shall certify to the 
Boards of County Commissioners of the 
several counties within the district the 
number and names of the persons attend- 
ing said institute from their respective 
counties, and it shall be the duty of the 
Board of County Commissioners of the 
county where such persons belong to ap- 
propriate the sum of two dollars for each 
person so certified. The funds arising 
from registration fees and appropriations 
of County Commissioners shall be desig- 
nated the ''normal institute fund/' and 
some county treasurer, whom a majority 
of the county superintendents of the dis- 
trict shall designate, shall be the custo- 
dian of said fund. The executive commit- 
tee shall, at the close of each institute, 
transmit to said custodian all funds re- 
ceived by it, as provided in this section, 
together with the name of each person 
paying a registration fee. The executive 
committee shall also report to the several 
Boards of County Commissioners in the 
district, the name and address of the cus- 
todian of the ''normal institute fund." 
On the receipt of such notice the several 
Boards of County Commissioners shall issue 
warrants for the appropriations provided 
in this section, payable to said custodian. 
It shall be the duty of the superintendent 
of public instruction, annually, when the 
executive committee of any normal insti- 
tute district shall certify that not less than 
tAventy persons have paid the registration 
fee, and have received instruction during 
the session of the institute, to certify the 
same to the auditor of state, who shall 
forward to the custodian of the "normal 
institute fund" of such district a warrant 
on the state treasurer for the sum of fifty 



dollars, to be paid out of any money ap- 
propriated for that purpose. 

Each applicant for a teacher's certifi- 
cate at any regular county examination, 
and each successful applicant for a renew- 
al or endorsement of a certificate, or for 
the issue of a like grade certificate, shall 
pay for the privilege of such examination, 
renewal, endorsement or issue of like 
grade certificate, a fee of one dollar, 
which shall be collected by the county 
superintendent of schools and forwarded, 
with his report of each examination, to 
the superintendent of public instruction. 

All fees thus collected and remitted to 
the superintendent of public instruction 
shall be turned over to the state treasurer 
and shall constitute a state normal insti- 
tute fund." 

On the first Monday in May of each 
year, the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall apportion the state normal in- 
stitute fund equally among the normal 
institute districts of the state, and the 
sum accredited to each normal institute 
district shall be transmitted to the custo- 
dian of the normal institute fund thereof 
in the same manner as each county's ap- 
portionment of the state school fund is 
now transmitted to the county treasurer; 
and each district's apportionment of the 
state normal institute fund shall be ap- 
plied and expended in the same manner 
and for the same purposes as the fund 
of each normal institute district has here- 
tofore been applied and expended. 

(e) Disbursements from normal insti- 
tute fund. All disbursements of the "nor- 
mal institute fund" shall be upon the 
order of the executive committee, and 
no order shall te drawn on said fund ex- 
cept for claims approved by said commit- 
tee for services rendered and expenses in- 
curred in connection with the normal in- 
stitute. It shall be unlawful to pay any 
one from the institute fund for services 
as conductor or instructor for such insti- 
tute, who does not hold a certificate of 



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qualification for such work, issued by the 
SRiperintendent of public instruction ; pro- 
vided, that a member of any state normal 
school faculty may be ex-officio a conductor 
of normal institutes. 

(f) Summer Normal Training Schools. 
The superintendent of public instruction 
with the advice and consent of the 
State Board of Education and of the 
executive committee or committees con- 
cerned may designate any normal insti- 
tute as a Summer Normal Training School 
for Teachers. When any normal institute 
shall be so designated the term shall not 
be less than five weeks; the registration 
fee may be increased by action of the 
executive committee to any sum not to 
exceed five dollars and for the support of 
such Summer Normal Training School, 
the Board of County Commissioners of 
each county shall appropriate not less 
than five dollars for each teacher resident 
in said county regularly certified as attend- 
ing such school. All the provisions of this 
act in relation to normal institutes except 
as herein specified shall apply to the con- 
duct, the management, the instruction and 
the financial support of the Summer Nor- 
mal Training Schools, No such Summer 
Normal Training School shall be conducted 
within any county in which is located any 
summer school for teachers conducted by 
any college or normal school under state 
direction. 

ARTICLE XVII. 

THE STATE AND THE CHILD. 

Section 1. The school census. 

(a) Definition. Under the direction of 
the State Board of Education there shall 
be a school census which shall be a per- 
manent continuous record in each district 
of the first or second class and in each 
county school district, embracing all per- 
sons over six (6) and under eighteen (18) 
years of age. 

(b) by whom kept. 

(1) The school census shall be kept by 



the attendance officer of each district, 
under the supervision of the superinten- 
dent and with the assistance of the prin- 
cipals and teachers. 

(2) Teachers and officers of private and 
parochial schools; parents; and persons, 
firms, and corporations employing any 
children between the ages of fourteen 
(14) and sixteen (16) shall co-operate 
with the attendance officer in securing a 
full and accurate census. 

(3) The Board of Directors of each dis- 
trict shall provide such assistant attend- 
ance officers and clerical assistants as may 
be necessary, pay for all such assistance, 
provide an office and the necessary sup- 
plies. The office of the attendance officer 
of a county school district shall be located 
at the county seat. 

(4) The superintendent of public in- 
struction shall prepare and furnish cards 
for the registration of the census data re- 
garding each child in such form as will pro- 
vide for a cumulative record for such child 
from six (6) to eighteen (18) years of age. 

For each child, on duplicate cards of a 
different color, one for the attendance offi- 
cer and the other for the school, the fol- 
lowing data shall be recorded : Date of 
making record ; source of information ; 
name in full; sex; day, month and year 
of birth; age at last birthday; place of 
birth ; name of parent or guardian ; resi- 
dence ; general physical condition ; phys- 
ical defects, if any; date of vaccination 
certificate ; general mental condition ; 
name and location of school in which the 
child is enrolled ; grade of advancement ; 
reason for his failure to be enrolled in 
school, if such be the case ; name of em- 
ployer; place and character of employ- 
ment, if he is at work; and such other 
data as may be required by the State 
Board of Education. 

(c) Liability for failure or falsification 
of return. Each person charged with any 
duty, special or co-operative in sub-section 
(b) of this Section shall answer and re- 



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port fully and truly all matters with 
which he is herein charged and shall be 
liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred 
and fifty dollars ($250), or imprisonment 
not exceeding fifteen (15) days, or both, 
for failure to discharge promptly and ac- 
curately all responsibilities devolving 
upon him. 

It shall be the duty of the attendance 
officer to prosecute under the provisions 
of this act any parent, guardian, em- 
ployer, school director or school officer 
who, charged with any duty by this act, 
shall fail or refuse to discharge said duty. 

Section 2. Compulsory education. 

(a) Children sent to school — exception 
— appeal. That in all school districts of. 
this state all parents, guardians and other 
persons having care of children shall in- 
struct them, or cause them to be in- 
structed, in reading, writing, spelling, 
English grammar, geography and arith- 
metic. In such districts every parent, 
guardian or other person having charge of 
any child between the ages of eight and 
sixteen years, shall send such child to a 
public school for the entire school year 
during which the public schools are in 
session in such districts; provided, how- 
ever, that this act shall not apply to any 
child between fourteen and sixteen years 
of age if such child shall have com- 
pleted the eighth grade, or may be eligi- 
ble to enter any high school in such dis- 
trict, and is regularly employed at some 
form of labor not prohibited by law or 
where its help is necessary for its own 
or its parents ' support, or where for good 
cause it would be for the best interests 
of such child to be relieved from the pro- 
visions of this act ; provided, further, that 
if such child is being sufficiently insl!ruct- 
ed at home by a person qualified, such 
child shall not be subject to the provisions 
of this act; and provided, further, that if 
a reputable physician within the district 
shall certify in writing that the child's 



bodily or mental condition does not permit 
its attendance at school, such child shall 
be exempt during such period of disabil- 
ity from the requirements of this act. It 
shall be the duty of the superintendent 
of the school district, if there be such 
superintendent, and, if not, then the 
county superintendent of schools, to hear 
and determine all applications of children 
desiring for any of the causes mentioned 
to be exempted from the provisions of 
this act, and if upon such application, 
such superintendent hearing the same 
shall be of the opinion that such child 
is for any reason entitled to be exempted 
as aforesaid, then such superintendent 
shall issue a written permit to such child, 
stating therein his reasons for such ex- 
emption. An appeal may be taken from 
the decision of such superintendent so 
passing upon such application to the 
county court of the county in which such 
district lies, upon such child making such 
application and filing the same with the 
clerk or judge of said court within ten 
days after its refusal by such superin- 
tendent, for which no fee to exceed the 
sum of one dollar shall be charged, and 
the decision of the county court shall be 
final. An application for release from the 
provisions of this act shall not be renewed 
oftener than once in three months. 

The State Board of Education may, in 
order to carry out the provisions for com- 
pulsory education herein, recognize pri- 
vate and parochial schools as furnishing 
suitable instruction within the meaning of 
this act if such schools (1) keep records 
and make reports in compliance with this 
act; (2) give instruction in the English 
language in branches equivalent to those 
taught in the public schools of the same 
district; (3) maintain a term of school 
as long as that of the public schools 
of the same district, and (4) shall satisfy 
the State Board of Education as to the 
sufficiency of equipment and efficiency of 
instruction. But no private or parochial 



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school shall be granted or refused recog- 
nition on account of any religious teach- 
ing therein. 

(b) Children under 14 years not em- 
ployed — penalty for employing. 

No child under the age of fourteen 
years shall be employed by any person, 
persons, company or corporation during 
the school term and while the public 
schools are in session, unless the parent, 
guardian or person in charge of such child 
shall have fully complied with sub-section 
(a) of this section. Every such employer 
shall require proof of such compliance, 
and shall make and keep a written record 
of the proof given, which shall be subject 
to the inspection of the attendance officer, 
superintendent of schools, or any school 
director of the district. Any employer 
employing any child contrary to the pro- 
vision of this section, shall be fined not 
less than twenty-five nor more than one 
hundred dollars. 

(c) Minors between 14 and 16 must read 
and write — duty of employer — ^penalty. 

All minors over the age of 14 years and 
under the age of 16 years who cannot read 
and write the English language, shall at- 
tend school at least one-half day of each 
day, or attend a public night school, or 
take regular private instruction from some 
person qualified, in the opinion of the 
county superintendent of schools of the 
county in which such district or the greater 
portion of the same lies, until such minor 
obtains a certificate from such superintend- 
ent that he or she can read at sight and 
write legibly, simple sentences in English. 



by him or in his employ, shall be fined not 
less than twenty-five dollars, and not more 
than one hundred dollars ; provided, that 
any employer, with the approval or con- 
sent of the county superintendent of 
schools, may make provision for the pri- 
vate instruction of minors in his employ. 

(d) Truant — juvenile disorderly per- 
son. Every child within the provisions 
of this act who does not attend school, as 
provided in sub-section (a) of this section, 
or who is in attendance at any public, pri- 
vate or parochial school, and is vicious, in- 
corrigible or immoral in conduct, or who is 
an habitual truant from school, or who 
habitually wanders about the streets and 
public places during school hours without 
any lawful occupation or employment, or 
who habitually wanders about the streets 
in the night time, having no employment or 
lawful occupation, shall be deemed a juve- 
nile disorderly person, and be subject to 
the provisions of this act. 

(e) Attendance officer- — Powers — Duties 
— Record. 

To aid in the enforcement of this act the 
board of school directors in districts of the 
first and second class and in county school 
districts, shall have power and it shall be 
their duty, to appoint one or more attend- 
ance officers, fix their compensation, and 
provide for their traveling, clerical and 
other necessary expenses ; provided, that 
where the duties of the office are too small 
to warrant the financial compensation 
requisite to secure good service, the same 
person may be designated to discharge the 
functions of school attendance officer and 



Every employer employing or having in probation officer of a county or juvenile 



employment any such minor shall exact 
as a condition of employment the school 
attendance or instruction required by this 
section, and shall on request of the at- 
tendance officer, furnish the evidence that 
such minor is complying with the require- 
ments of this section. Every employer 
failing to comply with the requirements 



court. The attendance officer shall keep 
on file in his office a permanent census 
record of the children of his district as pro- 
vided in Section 1 of this Article, and shall 
be responsible for the enforcement of the 
rules and regulations of the State Board of 
Education and the provisions of this act 
relative to compulsory attendance. The 



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powers and shall have authority to enter 
workshops, factories, stores and all other 
places where children may be employed and, 
in the way of investigation or otherwise, to 
enforce this act. The attendance officer 
shall institute proceedings against any of- 
ficer, parent, guardian, person or corpora- 
tion who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this act and shall otherwise discharge the 
provisions of this act and perform such 
other services as the county superintendent 
of schools or the board of directors of the 
school district may deem necessary to pre- 
serve the morals and secure the good con- 
duct of school children, and to enforce this 
act. He shall enforce the law regarding 
the sale of cigarettes and tobacco to chil- 
dren. 

The attendance officer shall co-operate 
with private and parochial schools in the 
enforcement of compulsory attendance, 
shall act in his district as deputy of the 
state factory inspector for the enforcement 
of the child labor law, and shall keep a 
record of his transactions for the inspection 
of the superintendent of schools and of the 
directors of the district. 

He shall, on or before the first day of 
July of each year, report to the county su- 
perintendent the number of blind and deaf 
mute persons resident in the district be- 
tween the ages of four (4) and twenty-two 
(22) years with the name and post office 
address of each. 

(f) Change of residence or employment. 
It shall be the duty of all teachers or 
others in charge of schools to issue dupli- 
cate census records and transfer permits to 
children leaving their respective schools 
and to notify the attendance officer of their 
district within two days after such action. 
It shall further be the duty of all such 
teachers or others in charge to require of 
newly enrolled pupils the census records 
and transfer permits issued by the school 
last attended. Persons, firms and corpora- 
tions employing children between the ages 
df fourteen and sixteen years shall re- 



port to the attendance officer of their dis- 
trict within two days the employment or 
withdrawal of any such child from their 
employment, and the name, age, sex, resi- 
dence, and school last attended. 

(g) Attendance officer — Duties — Convic- 
tion of parent — Penalty — Bond — ^Defense. 

The attendance officer shall examine into 
any case of truancy within his district, and 
shall warn the parent, guardian or others 
in charge of the child of the final conse- 
quence of truancy if persisted in. When 
any child between the ages of eight and 
fourteen years or any child between the 
ages of fourteen and sixteen years, who can 
not read and write the English language, is 
not engaged in some regular employment, 
or any child between the age of fourteen 
years and sixteen years who has been dis- 
charged from employment to obtain in- 
struction or schooling, is not attending 
school without lawful excuse and in viola- 
tion of the provisions of this act, the at- 
tendance officer shall notify the parent, 
guardian, or other person in charge, of the 
fact, and require such person to cause the 
child to attend some recognized school with- 
in five days from the date of the notice, and 
it shall be the duty of such person so to 
cause its attendance at some recognized 
school. Upon failure to do so, the attend- 
ance officer shall make complaint in the 
county court in which such child lives, 
against the parent, guardian or other per- 
son having such child in charge, and upon 
conviction, the parent, guardian or other 
person in charge, shall be fined not less 
than five dollars nor more than twenty dol- 
lars, or the court may, in its discretion, re- 
quire the person so convicted to give a bond 
in the penal sum of $100, with sureties to 
the approval of the judge of such court, 
conditioned that he or she will cause the 
child under his or her care to attend 
some recognized school within five days 
thereafter, and to remain at school during 
the term prescribed by law. And upon the 
failure or refusal of the parent, guardian 



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or other person to pay such fine or furnish 
such bond according to the order of the 
court, the said parent, guardian or other 
person shall be imprisoned in the county 
jail not less than ten days nor more than 
thirty days. For violation of the bond, 
suit may be brought in any court of com- 
petent jurisdiction, in the name of the 
school district, and the amount recovered 
shall go to the school fund of the district. 
If the parent, guardian or other person 
shall prove his inability to cause the child 
to attend a recognized, school, it shall be a 
defense, but the child shall be deemed a 
juvenile disorderly person within the mean- 
ing of sub-section (d) of this Section. 

(h) Juvenile disorderly person — Com- 
mitment — Term — Expense. 

Whenever a child shall be a juvenile dis- 
orderly person within the meaning of this 
act, the attendance officer or any school 
teacher, or other reputable person, may 
make complaint in the county court of the 
county in which such child resides. The 
county court shall hear and determine such 
complaint, and if it is determined that 
such child is a juvenile disorderly person 
within the meaning of this act, he or she 
shall be committed to a children's home, if 
eligible, or to the boys' industrial school or 
to the girls' industrial school, or to some 
other training school, taking into account 
the years of the child with reference to the 
institution selected. Any child committed 
to a children's home, on its being shown to 
the judge of said court that it is incorrigi- 
ble and vicious, may be transferred to the 
industrial school or other proper institu- 
tion. No child committed to any reforma- 
tory shall be detained beyond its majority 
and may be discharged sooner or paroled 
by the trustees or board of control under 
rules and restrictions applicable to other 
inmates. Any order of conunitment may 
be suspended by the judge of the county 
court during such time as the child may 
regularly attend school and properly con- 
duct itself. The expense of the transpor- 



tation of the child to the juvenile reforma- 
tory, and of the costs of the case in which 
the order of commitment is made, shall be 
paid by the county from which the child is 
committed. 

(i) Child unable to attend school — Re- 
lief. 

When any attendance officer is satisfied 
that any child within the requirements of 
this act is unable to attend school because 
required to work at home or elsewhere in 
order to support itself or help or support 
others legally entitled to its services, the at- 
tendance officer shall report the case to the 
authorities charged with the relief of the 
poor, who shall thereupon afford such re- 
lief as will enable the child to attend school ; 
provided, that such child shall not be re- 
quired to attend more than three hours a 
day during school days. In case the child 
or its parents or guardians neglect or re- 
fuse to take advantage of such provision 
made for its instruction such child may be 
committed to a children's home or juvenile 
reformatory, as hereinbefore provided. 

(j) Violation — Penalty. Any person who 
violates any provision of this act for which 
a penalty is not herein provided, shall be 
fined not more than fifty dollars. 

(k) Second conviction — Penalty — Trial 
by jury. Every person, after having been 
convicted once of violating any of the pro- 
visions of this act shall be convicted a sec- 
ond time of a similar offense, may, in addi- 
tion to the punishment by way of fine else- 
where provided for, be imprisoned not less 
than ten days nor more than thirty days; 
provided, that in all cases arising under 
this act in which a fine or imprisonment 
may be a part of the judgment, trial shall 
be by jury if not waived. 

(1) Not apply to districts without accom- 
modations. This shall not apply to school 
districts in which there are not sufficient ac- 
commodations in the public schools to seat 
children compelled to attend under the pro- 
visions of this act. 



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Section 3. Delinquent children. 

Definition. This act shall apply only to 
children sixteen years of age or under, not 
inmates of a state institution, or any insti- 
tution incorporated under the laws of the 
state for the care and correction of delin- 
quent children. The words ^^ delinquent 
child'* shall include any child sixteen years 
of age or under such age who violates any 
law of this state or any city or village ordi- 
nance; or who is incorrigible, or who know- 
ingly associates with thieves, vicious or im- 
moral persons, or who is growing up in 
idleness or crime, or ivho knowingly visits 
or enters a house of ill-repute, or who 
knowingly patronizes or visits any policy 
shop or place where any gaming device is, 
or shall he, operated; or who patronizes or 
visits any public pool room or bucket shop; 
or who wanders about the streets in the 
night time without being on any lawful 
business or occupation; or who habitually 
wanders about any railroad yards or tracks, 
or jumps or hooks on to any moving train, 
or enters any car or engine without lawful 
authority; or who habitually uses vile, ob- 
scene, vulgar, profane or indecent language, 
or is guilty of immoral conduct in any pub- 
lic place or about any school house. Any 
child committing any of the acts herein 
m^entioned shall be deemed a juvenile de- 
linquent person and shall be proceeded 
against as provided for elsewhere in the 
laws of the state. 

A disposition of any child under this 
act, or any evidence given in such cause, 
shall not in any civil, criminal or other 
cause or proceedings whatever in any court, 
be lawful or proper evidence against such 
child for any purpose whatever excepting 
in subsequent cases against the same child 
under this act. The word ^^ child" or 
*' children'* may mean one or more children 
or the word ^^parent" or **parents'* may 
mean one or both parents when consistent 
with the intent of this act. ( B. 8. 586.) 

From and after the passage of this act, 
any law of this state defining delinquency 



or concerning contributory delinquency 
shall, for the protection of girls be held to 
include all girls under the age of eighteen 
years. {S. L. 1911, p. 298.) 

Any person who shall be convicted of vio- 
lating any of the provisions of the preced- 
ing sections of this act, shall be fined not 
exceeding one hundred dollars, or be im- 
prisoned in the county jail not exceeding 
three months, or both, in the discretion of 
the court; and upon conviction for a second 
or any subsequent offense shall be fined not 
exceeding two hundred dollars, or be im- 
prisoned in the county jail not exceeding 
six months. {B. S. 603.) 

(a) Duty of school officers and teachers. 
It shall be the duty of teachers and school 
officers to report all cases of delinquency 
as defined in the statutes to the attendance 
officer of the district who shall make proper 
investigation and if due cause is found shall 
file a complaint according to law with the 
county or juvenile court having jurisdic- 
tion in such a case. 

Section 4. Defectives and dependents. 

(a) State teacher of adult blind. 

(1) Provision for. That the office of 
state teacher for the adult blind of the State 
of Colorado is hereby created and estab- 
lished. Said officer shall be either a male or 
female resident of this state to be selected 
and appointed by the State Board of Edu- 
cation, on nomination of the superintend- 
ent of public instruction, at its annual meet- 
ing, the last Saturday in December each 
year, and shall hold office for one year from 
said date or until his successor is duly ap-* 
pointed ; provided, that said board in select- 
ing said officer shall make such appointment 
by virtue only of the appointee's peculiar 
fitness for the position, competency and 
experience as a teacher of the blind, good 
moral character, and shall where practica- 
ble select a non-seeing person as such 
teacher. 

(2) Duties, office, report, removal. The 
duties of said officer shall embrace the edu- 
cation and teaching of all adult blind resi- 



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dents of Colorado at their respective homes, 
under such regulations directions and pro- 
cedure, and in those methods and educa- 
tional branches as the superintendent of 
public instruction shall prescribe. The office 
of the superintendent of public instruction 
shall be the general headquarters for said 
teacher. All the time and services of said 
officer shall be devoted ratably among the 
homes of all said adult blind, in the manner 
and way the State Board of Education shall 
prescribe, and he shall, prior to the first of 
November of each year, prepare and file 
with the president of said board, a full and 
complete report of all of the work com- 
menced or accomplished by his office during 
the preceding year. Provided, that the 
State Board of Education shall have the 
power at any time to remove said officer, 
after due hearing for any reason sufficient 
to said board, and to appoint another officer 
for such unexpired term. 

(3) Salary and expenses. The state 
teacher of the adult blind of Colorado shall 
receive a salary of one thousand dollars a 
year, payable in equal monthly install- 
ments by the state treasurer from the same 
fund provided for the payment of the other 
state officers, and upon due warrants of the 
state auditor, who is hereby authorized and 
directed to issue the same upon receipt of 
properly issued vouchers of the State Board 
of Education. Said officer shall also be paid 
and allowed all traveling and living ex- 
penses while away from the place of his 
residence and traveling within the state in 
fulfillment of the duties of his office and 
also all necessary teaching equipments and 
teaching methods, duly approved by the 
State Board of Education, not to exceed in 
all the sum of five hundred dollars for any 
year, which said expenses shall be evi- 
denced by itemized statements thereof, filed 
by said officer with the State Board of 
Education at the end of each month, and 
shall be paid monthly by the state treasurer 
in the same manner as the expenses of the 
other state officers allowed by the law are 



paid, and upon due warrants of the state 
auditor, which officer is hereby directed and 
authorized to issue said warrants upon re- 
ceipt of properly issued vouchers of the 
State Board of Education covering said ex- 
penses. 

(b) Register of adult blind. It shall be 
the duty of the superintendent of public 
instruction to prepare, maintain, and keep 
a ''Register of the Adult Blind of Colo- 
rado" which register shall describe their 
condition, cause of blindness, capacity for 
education and industrial training and other 
material and relevant facts concerning said 
persons; and the "Board of Control of the 
Colorado Industrial Workshops for the 
Blind" and the superintendent of the 
''Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind" 
are hereby directed to co-operate with said 
officer in the preparation and maintenance 
of said register by furnishing from time to 
time the names, addresses and such other 
facts concerning the adult blind in Colo- 
rado as may appear on their records or 
otherwise come to their knowledge. The 
work of preparing and maintaining said 
register shall be done in the office of and by 
the advice and under the direction of the 
superintendent of public instruction, where 
said register shall be preserved and filed. 

The expense of said register shall be 
charged to the account of the office of the 
superintendent of public instruction and 
paid in the same manner as the other ex- 
penses of said office. 

ARTICLE XVIII. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS AND REPEAL 

OF PRIOR LAWS 
Section 1. 

In all school districts which lie entirely 
within the exterior boundaries of any city 
operating under a special charter adopted 
under the provisions of Article XX of the 
Constitution, all powers and duties here- 
inbefore conferred upon or required to be 
exercised by the Board of Directors, are 
hereby conferred upon and shall be exer- 



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cised by the Board of Education of such 
district. 

Section 2. Repeal of conflicting provi- 
sions. 

Sections 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 
536, 537, 538, 539, 540, 5868, 5870, 5871, 
5873, 5874, 5875, 5876, 5877, 5880, 5881, 
5882, 5883, 5884, 5885, 5886, 5887, 5888, 
5889, 5890, 5891, 5892, 5905, 5906, 5907, 
5908, 5910, 5911, 5912, 5913, 5914, 5916, 
5917, 5921, 5922, 5923, 5924, 5926, 5927, 
5934, 5936, 5937, 5938, 5939, 5940, 5941, 
5954, 5955, 5990, 5991, 5992, 5993, 5994, 
5995, 5996, 6009, 6013, 6014, 6132, 6141, 
6142, of the Revised Statutes of Colorado 
of 1908 are hereby repealed. 

Sections 5950, 5951, 5952 and 5953 
of the Revised Statutes of 1908, and 
all other laws of the State of Colorado in 
conflict herewith are hereby repealed ; pro- 
vided, however, that such repeal shall in no 
wise affect any bonds issued under the laws 
repealed; and provided, further, that any 
and all procedings heretofore had or which 
are now being had or carried forward under 
the laws hereby repealed may be carried 
forward, completed and consummated un- 
der the provisions of this act. 

Chapter 165 of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1909 entitled ''An Act to Es- 
tablish a State Board of Examiners, to 
Prescribe the Duties Thereof, and to Re- 
peal Section 2 of Chapter 135 of the Laws 
of 1899, and for an Act Relative to the 
Granting of State Diplomas," approved 
April 23, 1909 ; 

Chapter 170 of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1909 entitled, ''An Act to 
Provide for the Creation of High School 
Districts in Counties of the Second, Third, 
Fourth and Fifth Classes, and to Provide 
for the Establishment and Support of 
High Schools Therein, by Levying Taxes 
and Creating a Bonded Indebtedness," 
approved April 3, 1909 ; 

Chapter 203 of the Session Laws of Col- 
orado of 1909 entitled, "An Act Provid- 
ing for the Examination and care of Chil- 



dren in the Public Schools and Making 
an Appropriation in Connection There- 
with," approved March 22, 1909; 

Chapter 204 of the Session Laws of Colo- 
rado of 1909, entitled "An Act for the con- 
solidation of adjoining school districts and 
for the transportation of pupils in such 
enlarged districts and to provide for 
courses of instruction in the same," ap- 
proved May 5, 1909, as amended by Chap- 
ter 202 of the Session Laws of Colorado of 
1911, the same being entitled "An Act to 
amend Section 4 of an act of the Session 
Laws for 1909, entitled 'An Act for the 
consolidation of adjoining school districts, 
and for the transportation of pupils in such 
enlarged districts and to provide for courses 
of instruction in the same,' " approved 
May 28, 1911 ; 

Chapter 214 of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1909 entitled, "An Act to Es- 
tablish a Public School Teachers' Retire- 
ment Fund," approved May 5, 1909; 

Chapter 2 of the Sessions Laws of 
Colorado of 1911, entitled "An Act con- 
cerning the education and teaching of the 
adult blind of Colorado; creating and 
establishing the office of a ' State teacher of 
the adult blind in the State of Colorado,' 
prescribing the duties of said office and 
providing for the qualifications, appoint- 
ment, term of service, salary and traveling 
expenses of said office," approved June 1, 
1911; 

Chapter 61 of the Session Laws of Colo- 
rado of 1911 entitled, "An Act to Create 
a Permanent School Emergency -or Call 
Fund under the Control of the State Su- 
perintendent of Public Instruction, and 
Providing for the Use and Expenditure of 
the Same, ' ' signed June 5, 1911 ; 

Chapter 201 of the Session Laws of Col- 
orado of 1911 entitled, "An Act to Amend 
Section 5935 of the Revised Statutes of 
Colorado Concerning the Time of Taking 
the School District Census of Persons of 
School Age and Making Report Upon the 
Same," approved May 30, 1911; 



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Chapter 203 of the Session Laws of Col- 
orado of 1911, entitled "An Act to Amend 
Section 5909, Revised Statutes of Colorado 
of 1908 Relating to Schools and Provid- 
ing for Uniting Contiguous Districts and 
Annexing Contiguous Territory, and Re- 
lating to Bonded Indebtedness on One or 
More of Said Districts," approved Feb- 
ruary 21, 1911 ; 

Chapter 205 of the Session Laws of Col- 
orado of 1911 entitled, "An Act to Pro- 
vide for the Publication of a Financial 
Statement of all School Districts in the 
State of Colorado," approved June 2, 
1911; 

Chapter 207 of the Session Laws of Col- 
orado of 1911 entitled, "An Act to Amend 
Sections 5915, 5918, 5919 and 5920 of the 
Revised Statutes of Colorado, 1908, Con- 
cerning Schools and School Elections, and 
Providing Penalties for the Violation of 
the Provisions of this Act," approved 
May 28, 1911 ; 

Chapter 208 of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1911, entitled "An Act to pro- 
vide for the investment of funds arising 
from the sale of the school lands belonging 
to the public schools of the State of Colo- 
rado, and to repeal all acts and parts of 
acts of the State of Colorado in conflict 
with the provisions of this Act," approved 
May 26, 1911 ; 

Chapter 142 of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1913 entitled, "An Act to 
Amend an Act to Amend Subdivision Fif- 
teen of Section Five Thousand Nine Hun- 
dred Twenty-five of the Revised Statutes 
of Colorado for the Year 1908, the Same 
Being a Part of Section Sixty of Chapter 
One Hundred Twenty-four in Relation to 
Schools, the Said Act Being Chapter 
CCn of the Session Laws of Colorado of 
1909, Approved April 23, 1909," ap- 
proved April 13, 1913 ; 

Chapter 156 of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1913 entitled, "An Act to 
Provide a Minimum Salary for Teachers, ' ' 
approved April 12, 1913 ; 



Chapter 87 of the Session Laws of Colo- 
rado of 1915 entitled, "An Act in Rela- 
tion to County Superintendents of 
Schools," approved April 12, 1915; 

Chapter 145 of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1915 entitled, "An Act to Pro- 
vide for the Interchange of Public School 
Teachers Between Colorado and Other 
States," approved March 5, 1915; 
— are hereby repealed. 

Section 5925 of the Revised Statutes of 
Colorado of 1908, amended by Chapter 202 
of the Session Laws of Colorado of 1909, 
entitled "An Act to amend sub-division 
fifteen of Section five thousand nine hun- 
dred and twenty-five of the Revised Stat- 
utes of Colorado, for the year 1908, the 
same being Section sixty of Chapter one 
•hundred and twenty-four in relation to 
schools," approved April 23, 1909, and 
the said amending act being amended by 
Chapter 142 of the Session Laws of Colo- 
rado of 1913, entitled "An Act to amend 
an act to amend sub-division fifteen of Sec- 
tion five thousand nine hundred twenty- 
five of the Revised Statutes of Colorado for 
the year 1908, the same being a part of 
Section sixty of Chapter one hundred twen- 
t3^-four in relation to schools, the said act 
being Chapter CCII of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1909, approved April 23, 
1909," approved April 13, 1913; the said 
Section 5925 of Revised Statutes of Colo- 
rado for 1908, and the said amending act 
of Chapter 202 of Session Laws of Colora- 
do for 1909, and the said amending act of 
Chapter 142 of the Session Laws of Colo- 
rado for 1913, be and all and every one of 
the same are hereby repealed. 

Chapter 205 of the Session Laws 
of 1909, being an act approved April 
8, 1909, Section 1 of Chapter 144, 
of the Session Laws of 1915, Chapter 
140 of the Session Laws of 1915, being an 
act approved April 10, 1915, in so far as 
inconsistent herewith, sections numbered 
17 to 20, both inclusive, of Chapter 170 of 
the Session Laws of 1909, being an act ap- 



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proved April 3, 1909, and all other acts 
and laws of the State of Colorado, and 
parts of acts and laws contrary to or in- 
consistent herewith, are hereby repealed; 
provided, that the repeal of said acts and 
parts of acts shall in no wise affect any 
bonds issued thereunder; and provided, 
further, that any and all proceedings here- 
tofore had or which are now being had or 
carried forward, under the acts hereby 
repealed, or any, all or either of them, 
may be carried forward, completed and 
consummated under this act and bonds 
authorized or contemplated by the pro- 
cedure under said acts hereby repealed or 
any, all or either of them, may be issued 
in the form and with the terms and ac- 
cording to the provisions of this act. 

All other Acts and parts of Acts in con- 
flict herewith are hereby repealed. 

Section 3. 

If any section, sub-section, sentence, 
clause or phrase of this Act is for any 
reason held to be unconstitutional, such 
decision shall not affect the validity of 
the remaining portions of this Act. The 
Legislature hereby declares that it would 
have passed this Act, and each section, 
sub-section, sentence, clause and phrase 
thereof irrespective of the fact that any 
one or more sections, sub-sections, sen- 
tences, clauses or phrases be declared un- 
constitutional. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

The following miscellaneous sections 
found in the Annotated School Laws of 
1916, on the pages indicated, have not 
been amsnded or repealed, nor have they 
been shown in italics in the body of the 
text of the Code. 

Reference is here made to them in 
order that every section may be account- 
ed for. 

ALCOHOLIC DRLYKS AMD 
NARCOTICS 

Sec. 1. A. S. L., 1916, p. 17 (R. S. 
6011) — Xatxire and effect of alcoholic 
drinks and narcotics be taught. 



Sec. 2. A. S. L., 1916, p. 17 (R. S. 
601 B) — Officers enforce provisions of 
act — penalty for failure. 

CIGARETTES 

Sec. 3. A. S. L., 1916, p. 17 (R. S. 
600) — Unlawful to give or sell ciga- 
rettes to persons under sixteen. 

TOBACCO 

Sec. 4. A. S. L., 1916, p. 18 (R. S. 
601) — Penalty for giving or selling to- 
bacco to persons under sixteen without 
written order. 

CHILD LABOR LAW 

J^ote: Bills have been introduced in 
the Legislature amending the Child 
Labor Law, particularly with reference 
to paragraph 3, of section Jj,S, A. S. L. 
1916, p. 37. (S. L. '11, p. 232.) 

For this reason no amendment to the 
Child Labor Laws is incorporated in the 
text of the Code, the Committee feeling 
that the bills introduced, as above men- 
tioned, will provide a basis for the solu- 
tion of the problem/ involved. The sec- 
tions of the Child Labor Law found in 
the Annotated School Laws on pages 37 
to 47, are as follows: 

Sec. 4S — Employment of child under 
fourteen — exception. (S. L. '11, p. 232.) 

Sec. 49 — Exhibit of child under six- 
teen — exception. (S. L. '11, p. 233.) 

Sec. 50 — Employment underground 
worJcs under sixteen. (S. L. '11, p. 

234.) 

Sec. 51 — Employer to "keep register — 
school certificate. (S. L. '11, p. 235.) 

Sec. 52 — List of employed posted in 
work room. (S. L. '11, p. 235.) 

Sec. 53 — Age and school certificate. 
(S. L. '11, p. 236.) 

Sec. 54 — Age and school certificate — 
how approved. (S. L. '11, p. 236.) 

Sec. 55 — Proof of a^e. (S. L. '11, p. 
237.) 

Sec. 56 — Employment ticket. (S. L. 
'11, p. 239.) 



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Sec. 57 — Schooling required. (S. L. 
'11, V' 2S9.) 

Sec. 58 — Duties of state inspectors of 
factories. (S. L. '11, p. 240.) 

Sec. 59 — Hours of labor. (S. L. '11, 
p. 240.) 

Sec. 60 — Prima facie evidence of a 
child's employment. (S. L. '11, p. 240.) 

Sec. 61 — Enforcement of the provi- 
sions of this act. (S. L. '11, p. 241-) 

Sec. 62 — Child exempted — how. 
(S. L. '11, p. 241.) 

Sec. 63 — Penalties — first offense. (S. 
L. '11, p. 248.) 

Sec. 64 — Penalties — second violation. 
(S. L. '11, p. 244.) 

COTJXTY SVPERIKTEKBEXT 

Sec. 84. A. S. L., 1916, p. 55 (R. S. 
1355) — Act till successor qualified. 

Sec. 86. A. S. L., 1916, p. 55 (R. S. 
1359) — When office becomes vacant. 

COUJVTT TREASURER 

Sec. 101. A. S. L., 1916, p. 62 (R. S. 
5900) — Duties of county treasurer. 

Sec. 102. A. S. L., 1916, p. 62 (R. S. 
5899) — County treasurer certify mon- 
eys to county superintendent — pay over 
— failure — penalty. 

Sec. 103. A. S. L., 1916, p. 63 (R. S. 
5901) — Treasurer keeps separate ac- 
counts — warrants. 

Sec. 104. A. S. L., 1916, p. 63 (R. S. 
5902) — County treasurer cancel all 
paid school orders. 

Sec. 105. A. S. L., 1916, p. 63 (R. S. 
5903) — County treasurer render quar- 
terly statement to school board. 

Sec. 106. A. S. L., 1916, p. 63 (R. S. 
1326) — Pay school orders as registered. 

Sec. 107. A. S. L., 1916, p. 64 (R. S. 
5904) — County treasurer furnish 
blanks to district board. 

Sec. 108. A. S. L., 1916, p. 64 (R. S. 
1826) — Failure to publish call — pen- 
alty. 

Sec. 109. A. S. L., 1916, p. 64 (R. S. 
2537) — Treasurer's fees — school taxes. 



ELECTORS 

Sec. 146. A. S. L., 1916, p. 97 (R. S. 
2146) — Qualifications of electors. 

Sec. 147. A. S. L., 1916, p. 97 (R. S. 
2147) — Women vote — qualifications. 

FIJ^ES 

Sec. 150. A. S. L. 1916, p. 101 (R. 
S. 3874) — Justice report — fines. 

Sec. 151. A. S. L., 1916, p. 101 (R. 
S. 3875) — County treasurer render 
statement. 

FIJVES UJVDER FEDERAL 
STATUTES. 

Sec. 152. A. S. L., 1916, p. 101 (R. 

Sec. 152. A. S. L., 1916, p. 101 
(Federal Criminal Code, 52) — For the 
willful setting on fire of timber and 
underbrush on public domain. 

Sec. 153. A. S. L., 1916, p. 101 
(Federal Criminal Code, 53) — Fiize for 
leaving unattended fires in or near for- 
est timber. 

Sec. 154. A. S. L., 1916, p. 101 
(Federal Criminal Code, 54) — Fines 
collected paid to public school fund. 

FLAGS. 

Sec. 155— A. S. L., 1916, p. 102 (R. 
S. 5928) — Directors purchase fiag — 
flagstaff — display. 

Sec. 156— A. S. L., 1916, p. 102 (R. 
S. 5929) — Each department keep fiag. 

Sec. 157— A. S. L., 1916, p. 102 (R. 
S. 5930) — Expense of purchasing and 
care of fiag. 

Sec. 158— A. S. L., 1916, p. 102 (R. 
S. 5931) — Applies to all institutions. 

Sec. 159 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 102 (R. 
S. 5932) — Injury to fiag. 

Sec. 160 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 103 (R. 
S. 5933) — Superintendent of public in- 
struction publish act. 

Sec. 161— A. S. L., 1916, p. 103 (R. 
S. 2597) — Display of fiag other than 
United States — exception. 

Sec. 162— A. S. L., 1916, p. 103 (R. 
S. 2598) — Violation. 



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STATE FLAG 

Sec. 163 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 103 (S. 
L. '11, p. 611) — State flai adopted — 
description of. 

FRATERXITIES 

Sec. 164 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 104 (S. 
L., '13, p. 575) — Concerning secret fra- 
ternities — Sororities oi^ societies — and 
forbidding school children to join the 
same — aizd concerning persons who 
cause or encourage children to violate 
this act. 

PEMAL FUMD 

Sec. 177 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 109 (R. 
S. 5897) — What fines paid to school 
fund — accounts — collector failing to 
pay — penalty — duty of superintendent. 

FUJVDS JVOT LOAMED OR INVESTED 

Sec. 178 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 109 (R. 
S. 1821) — Officer not convert or use 
funds. 

Sec. 179 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 110 (R. 
S. 1822) — Officer not loan funds. 

Sec. 180 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 110 (R. 
S. 1823) — J^o heneflt from deposit of 
funds. 

Sec. 181— A. S. L., 1916, p. 110 (R. 
S. 1824) — Penalty. 

HAZIJ^G 

Sec. 184 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 112 (R. 
S. 1661) — Hazing unlawful. 

Sec. 185— A. S. L., 1916, p. 112 (R. 
S. 1662) — Punishment for hazing. 

Sec. 186 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 112 (R. 
S. 1663) — Punishment for hazing in 
educational institutions. 

Sec. 187 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 112 (R. 
S. 1664) — Hazing — jurisdiction of jus- 
tice of the peace. 

OARKISRMEKTS 

Sec. 188 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 113 (S. 
L. '11, p. 445) — School districts subject 
to garnishment. 

Sec 189 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 113 (S. 
L. '11, p. 445) — Provisions apply to all 
salaries, wa^es, etc. 



HOLIDAYS 
Arbor Day 

Sec. 222— A. S. L., 1916, p. 127 (R. 
S. 2942) — Arbor Day — third Friday in 
April — how to be observed. 

Sec. 223 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 127 (R. 
S. 2943) — Holiday in schools — how ob- 
served. 

Sec. 224 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 127 (R. 
S. 2944) — Governor issue proclamation 
— superintendent of public instruction 
— county superintendents — report. 

Colorado Day 

Sec. 225 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 128 (R. 
S. 2945) — Colorado Day — first day in 
August — commemoration of admission 
of state — public holiday. 

Sec. 226 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 128 (R. 
S. 2946) — When first day falls on Sun- 
day — Monday following to be cele- 
brated. 

Columbus Day 

Sec. 227 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 128 (R. 
S. 2948) — Columbus Day — twelfth 
day of October — legal holiday. 

Election Day 
Sec. 228 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 128 (R. 
S. 2949) — Election day in Movember. 

Good Roads Day 

Sec. 229— A. S. L., 1916, p. 128 (S. 
L. '11, p. 446) — Second Friday in May 
— holiday. 

Sec. 230 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 129 (S. 
L. '11, p. 447 ) — Public schools observe. 

Sec. 231 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 129 (S. 
L. '11, p. 447 ) — Proclamation of gov- 
ernor. 

INTEREST 

Sec. 232— A. S. L., 1916, p. 130 (R. 
S. 3164) — Rate of interest on school or- 
ders and school warrants. 

PUBLIC COX TRACTS 

Sec. 235 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 135 (R, 
S. 4994) — Officer not interested in con- 
tract. . 



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Sec. 236 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 185 (R. 

S. 4995) — Penalty. 

Sec. 237 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 135 (R. 
S. 1820) — Officers dealing in warrants. 

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE SYSTEM 

Sees. 254-268, inclusive (Pages 143- 
145 A. S. L. 1916). 

HORTICULTURE AXB FORESTRY 

Sec. 269 — A. S. L., 1916, p. 145 (S. 
L. '11, p. 145) — Branch school at Grand 
Junction. 

Sec. 270— A. S. L., 1916, p. 146 (S. 
L. '11, p. 146) — State hoard of agricul- 
ture manage. 

COLORADO SCHOOL FOR DEAF 
AMD BLIND 

Sees. 271-279, inclusive (Pages 147- 
148 A. S. L. 1916). 

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS 

For Boys 

Sees. 284-295, inclusive (Pages 151- 
154 A. S. L. 1916). 

For Girls 

Sees. 296-321, inclusive (Pages 155- 
161 A. S. L. 1916). 



STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS 

State Teachers' College 
Sees. 322-325, inclusive (Pages 162- 
163 A. S. L. 1916). 

(326 amended — See page 54 of text of 
Code. ) 
Sees. 327-330, inclusive (Pages 164- 
165 A. S. L. 1916). 

(Sections 331 and .332 amended — See 
page 54 of text of Code. ) 
Sees. 333-336, inclusive (Page 166- 
167 A. S. L. 1916). 

SCHOOL OF MINES 

Sees. 337-342, inclusive (Page 168 
A. S. L. 1916). 

STATE HOME FOR DEPENDENT 
AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN 

Sees. 343-347, inclusive (Pages 170- 
171 A. S. L. 1916). 

STATE HOME AND TRAINING 
SCHOOL FOR MENTAL 
DEFECTIVES 
Sees. 348-351 inclusive (Pages 173- 
174 A. S. L. 1916). 

TRUANT SCHOOLS 

Sees. 352-363, inclusive (Pages 175- 
178 A. S. L. 1916). 

UNIVERSITY 

Sees. 364-371, inclusive (Pages 179- 
180 A. S. L. 1916). 



78 



CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS 



Complementary constitutional amend- 
ments were introduced in the Senate and 
House, as indicated below. 

These amendments were prepared for 
the purpose of opening the way to the 
consummation of the plan of the Code as 
in the intention of the members of the 
Committee it would ultimately appear. 

It should be borne in mind, however, 
that the statutory code, beginning on page 
5, is capable of enactment with great re- 
sulting benefit to the state from an edu- 
cational standpoint, without the adoption 
of these amendments. In the judgment of 
the Committee, however, the state will not 
secure its greatest improvement in educa- 
tional organization and administration 
until the changes provided in these amend- 
ments to the Constitution are brought 
about. 

Those who object to making the State 
Board of Education composed of appoint- 
ive members instead of ex-officio elective 
officials, and to the appointment instead 
of election of the state and county super- 
intendents, are urged to support the stat- 
utory code, as the constitutional amend- 
ments cannot in any event be adopted 
earlier than the election in November, 
1918. 

The constitutional amendments above 
referred to are as follows: 

Senate bill No. > 314, by Senators An- 
drew, Coldern, Schermerhorn, Hethering- 
ton, Dunklee, Elliot, Knauss and Stark- 
weather and House Bill No. 389, by 
Messrs. Frisbey and Smith, to amend Sec- 
tions 1 and 4 of Article IV, to read as 
follows : 

''Section 1. The executive department 
shall consist of a governor, lieutenant- 
governor, secretary of state, auditor of 
state, state treasurer, and attorney gen- 
eral, each of whom shall hold his office 
for the term of two years beginning on 
the second Tuesday of January next after 
his election. The officers of the executive 



department, except the lieutenant-gover- 
nor, shall, during their term of office, re- 
side at the seat of government, where they 
shall keep the public records, books and 
papers. They shall perform such duties 
as are prescribed by this constitution or 
by law.'* 

' ' Section 4. No person shall be eligible 
to the office of governor or lieutenant- 
governor, unless he shall have attained the 
age of thirty years, nor to the office^ of 
auditor of state, secretary of state, or 
state treasurer unless he shall have at- 
tained the age of twenty-five years, nor 
to the office of attorney general unless he 
shall have attained the age of twenty-five 
years and be a licensed attorney of the 
supreme court of the state of Colorado in 
good standing. No person shall be eligi- 
ble to any one of the said offices unless, 
in addition to the qualifications above pre- 
scribed therefor, he shall be a citizen of 
the United States and have resided with- 
in the limits of the state two years next 
preceding his election." 

NOTE : It will be necessary to amend 
this bill to provide that Section 20 of Ar- 
ticle IV shall read — ''The commissioner 
of education shall be ex-officio state li- 
brarian," instead of "the superintendent 
of public instruction shall be ex-officio 
state librarian." 

Senate Bill No. 315, by Senators An- 
drew, Coldren, Schermerhorn, Hethering- 
ton, Dunklee, Elliot, Knauss and Stark- 
weather and House Bill No. 390, by 
Messrs. Frisbey and Smith, to amend Sec- 
tions 1 and 6 of Article IX, to read as 
follows : 

"Section 1. The general supervision of 
the public schools of the State shall be 
vested in a board of education consisting 
of five members to be appointed by the 
governor, whose qualifications, powers 
and duties shall be prescribed by law, 
each of whom shall hold his office for the 
term of five years." 



79 



"Section 6. There shall be a county 
superintendent of schools in each county, 
who shall be appointed as provided by 
law and whose duties and qualifications 
shall be prescribed by law, provided, that 
the first county superintendent of schools 
to be appointed shall not take office until 
the expiration of the term of the county 
school superintendent elected in 1918. He 
shall be ex-officio commissioner of lands 
within his county, and shall discharge 
the duties of said office as directed by 
law." 

Add a new section, designated Section 
17, to Article IX : 

"Section 17. The State Board of Edu- 
cation shall, at their first meeting, or as 
soon thereafter as practicable, appoint a 
commissioner of education who shall hold 
his office for such term as may be fixed 
by the State Board of Education." 

Senate Bill No. 313, by Senators An- 
drew% Coldren, Schermerhorn, Hethering- 



ton, Dunklee, Elliot, Knauss and Stark- 
weather and House Bill No. 391, by 
Messrs. Frisbey and Smith, to amend Sec- 
tion 8 of Article XIV, to read as follows : 

"Section 8. There shall be elected in 
each county, at the same time at which 
members of the General Assembly are 
elected, one county clerk, who shall be ex- 
officio recorder of deeds and clerk of the 
Board of County Commissioners ; one sher- 
iff; one coroner; one treasurer, who shall 
be collector of taxes ; one county survey- 
or ; one county assessor ; and one county 
attorney, who may be elected or appointed 
as shall be provided by law; and such 
officers shall be paid such salary or com- 
pensation, either from the fees, perqui- 
sites and emoluments of their respective 
offices, or from the general county fund, 
as may be provided by law. ' ' 

This section shall govern, except as 
hereafter otherwise expressly directed, or 
permitted by constitutional enactment." 



80 



INDEX 

Art. Sec. Sub -Sec. Page 

Absence 

Of director from district V 

Adult Blind 

State teacher of XVII 

Adults, Education of 

Supervision of education by State Board II 

Provision for, by Boards of Directors V 

Agriculture 

Courses in II 

Agricultural College 

See Italics 

See Italics 

Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics 

See Italics 

Aliens, Schools for 

Established by Boards of Directors V 

Apparatus 

See "Text Books and Apparatus." 

Appeals 

To State Board of Education II 

To County Superintendent rV 

From County Superintendent to State Board (See Italics) . 
From District Board tO' County Superintendent (See Italics) 

Apportionment of Funds 

By Superintendent of Public Instruction under direction 

of Board of Education Ill 

By County Superintendent IV 

By Superintendent of Public Instruction IX 

Manner of apportionment IX 

To County Teachers' Training Class fund IX 

County public school fund IX 

To new districts IX 

Withholding of funds IX 

Assistant State Librarian. 

A ppointment II 

Duties and qualifications of 11 

Salary II 

Nomination of Ill 

Attendance Officer 

Nomination by County Superintendent IV 

Powers — duties XVII 

Blind, Adult 

See "Adult Blind." 
Board of Education 

In cities operating under special charter XVIII 1 71 

See "State Board of Education." 
Boards of Directors — Provisions for Election — Term— Vacancies 

Provision for — qualifications V 

In first class districts V 

In second class and local districts V 

Vacancies in second class and local districts V 

In county school districts V 

Vacancies filled by majority of board V 

Qualifying and beginning term of office (all districts) V 

Absence of directors from district V 

Organization and meetings V 

Meetings of board V 

Election of teachers V 

Expenses of directors — County School District V 

Duties of officers V 

President "V 

Secretary V 

Treasurer V 

Superintendent of schools V 

Boards of Directors — (1st — 2d — County School) 

Powers and duties V 

Employ and discharge teachers and other employes V 

Determine tuition fees V 

Make rules and regulations V 

Suspend pupils V 

Exclude pupils under six, except V 

Forbid sectarian instruction V 

Determine courses of study V 

Prescribe text books . V 

Provide facilities V 

Supply books to indigent children V 

Furnish free text books, when V 

Establish special schools V 

Provide for transportation of pupils V 

Maintain night schools V 



4 


(e) 


20 


5 


(a) 


70 


1 


(1) 


7 


6 


(f) 


30 


1 


(r) 


8 

39 

77 

74 


6 


(f) 


3Q 


1 


(n) 


T 


1 


(q) 


18. 
14 
li 


1 


(m) 


10 


1 


(1) 


1^ 


1 


(a) 


42 


1 


(a) 


42 


2 




43 


3 


(a) 


43 


3 


(b) 


44 


3 


(c) 


44 


1 


(a) 


6 


1 


(a) 


e 


1 


(V) 

(e) 


8 


1 


9 


1 


(f) 


11 


2 




67 

68 





(a) 


19' 




(b) 


19 




(c) 


19 




(c) 


19> 




(d) 


20 




(d) 


20 




(e) 


20' 




(e) 


20 




(f) 


2a 




(f) 


21 




(f) 


21 




(&) 


21 




(h) 


21 




(h) 


21 




(h) 


21 




(h) 


22 




(h) 


23 


6 




29 


6 


(a) 


29 


6 


(1») 


29 


6 


(c) 


29 


6 


(c) 


29 


6 


(c) 


29 


6 


(c) 


29 


6 


(d) 


30 


6 


(d) 


30 


6 


(e) 


30 


6 


(e) 


30 


6 


(e) 


30 


6 


(O 


30 


6 


it) 


30 


6 


(f) 


30 



I 



81 

Boards of Directors (1st — 2d — County School) — Continued Art. Sec. Sub-Sec. Page 

Establish alien, vocational schools, free kindergartens, play- 
grounds, open air schools, school libraries, museume, 

parental, truant, clinical and orphan schools V 6 (f) 30 

Provide instruction in music, vocal expression, drawing, 
household economics, care of children, vocational 

training and for special teachers V 

Prescribe qualifications of special teachers V 

Elxamine and issue certificates to special teachers V 

Trustees of school property V 

Rent, repair, insure — school buildings V 

Build, or remove buildings V 

Buy or sell property for school purposes V 

Determine number of teachers V 

Fix school hours V 

Dismiss primary schools, when V 

Determine length of school year V 

Make reports V 

Certify aggregate amount of needed income V 

Give notices of elections V 

Submit to electors bonded indebtedness V 

Submit to electors question of free text books V 

Transfer of pupils V 

Provide for interchange of teachers V 

Serve without compensation V 

Unlawful to make profit V 

Boards of Dtrectors (County School Districts) 

Special powers and duties V 

Make survey of district V 

Change boundaries V 

Assign duties of secretary to county superintendent V 

Boards of Directors (First Class Districts) 

Special powers and duties V 

Prescribe qualifications of teachers, janitors and other em- 
ployes V 

Shall appoint district health ofl^cer XI 

May maintain clinics and clinical schools XI 

Boards of Directors — Local School Districts 

Co-operate with other districts V 

Care for buildings V 

Give notice of meetings V 

Certify records and estimated expenses V 

Call meetings of electors V 

Make reports V 

Bonds 

For purchase of ground, erection of buildings ■ V 

V 
V 
X 

Bonds, refunding V 

V 
V 
X 
Bonds, Surety 

Of Superintendent of Public Instruction Ill 

Of Secretary of Board of Trustees of State Teachers' Col- 
lege and Normal Schools Ill 

Of County Superintendent IV 

Of District Secretary V 

Of District Treasurer V 

Books 

See "Text Books." 
Boundaries, Change of 

By County School District Board V 

Not release property from indebtedness X 

Budgets 

Certification of, by County Superintendent IV 

Certification of, by Boards of Directors V 

Certification of, by Local District Boards V 

Certification of, by Boards of Directors VIII 

Certification of, by Local District Boards VIII 

Building Funds 

Special Tax — purpose — amount , X 

Bonds — purpose X 

Buildings 

See "School Buildings." 
Census 

See "School Census." 
Certification 

See "Examination and Certification of Teachers." 
Charitable Institutions 

Inspection of II 

Education of inmates II 

Child Labor Laws 

Enforcement by Boards of Directors V 

See Italics 

Child Rearing 

Information concerning IT 

Provision of instruction by Boards of Directors V 



6 


(f) 


30 


6 


(f) 


30 


6 


(f) 


30 


6 


(e) 


30 


6 


(g) 


30 


6 


(g) 


30 


6 


(g) 


30 


6 


(h) 


30 


6 


(h) 


30 


6 


(h) 


30 


6 


(h) 


30 


6 


(i) 


30 


6 


(i) 


31 


6 


(i) 


31 


6 


(i) 


31 


^ 


(i) 


31 


6 


(J) 


31 


6 


(k) 


31 


6 


(m) 


32 


6 


(m) • 


32 


7 




32 


7 


(a) 


^2 


7 


(b) 


32 


7 


(c) 


33 


8 




33 


8 




33 


1 


(a) 


51 


3 




52 


9 


(a) 


33 


9 


(b) 


33 


9 


(c) 


33 


9 


(d) 


33 


9 


(d) 


34 


9 


(e) 


34 


6 


(i) 


31 


10 


(a) 


34 


10 


(b) 


34 


5 


(b) 


45 


6 


(i) 


31 


10 


(a) 


34 


10 


(b) 


34 


6 




49 


1 




8 


1 


(n) 


10 


1 


(s) 


13 


4 


(h) 


21 


4 


(h) 


22 


7 


(b) 


32 


8 




51 


1 


(n) 


12 


6 


(i) 


31 


9 


(d) 


34 


5 




42 


6 




42 


5 


(a) 


45 


5 


(b) 


45 



1 
1 


(f) 
(g) 


7 


6 


(c) 


29 

74 


1 
6 


(q) 
(O 


8 
30 



82 

Art. Sec. Sub-Sec. Page 

Children, Delinquent 

See "Delinquent Children." 

Children, Physical Examination of 

See "Health and Sanitary Control." 

Cigarettes 

See Italics 74 

Clinics, School 

See "Health and Sanitary Control." 

Colorado School for Deaf and Blind 

Education of inmates II 1 (g) 7 

See Italics 77 

Colorado State Reformatory 

Education of inmates II 1 (g) 7 

Commission 

See "State Educational Commission" and "State Library 
Commission." 

Commercial Courses 

In secondary schools II 1 (r) 8 

Compensation 

Of Directors V 

Compulsory Education XVII 

Consolidation of Districts V 

Constitutional Amendments 

Continuation Schools 

Authorized by State Bo9.rd II 

Established by Boards of Directors V 

County High School 

See also "Districts, School" VI 

County High School Committee 

County Superintendent, member and executive IV 

Membership — powers — duties VI 

County Librarian 

Nomination of, by County Superintendent IV 

Appointment and duties VII 

Co-operation of other employes with VII 

County Library 

How supported and equipped IV 

VII 

How established VII 

Location VII 

How managed VII 

County Library Board 

Composition VII 

Establish county library VII 

Power to erect buildings VII 

Power to adopt rules Vn 

Appoint County Librarian VII 

Submit estimates of money needed VII 

County Public School Fund 

How apportioned IX 

When made IX 

To new districts IX 

Withholding of, when IX 

County School Districts 

See "Districts, School." 

County Superintendent 

Supervision by Superintendent of Public Instruction Ill 

Powers and duties IV 

Supervision of schools IV 

Teachers' meetings — conducted by IV 

Visit schools IV 

Promote educational agencies IV 

Ex-oflicio relationships IV 

Nomination of teachers, by IV 

Vacancies filled, by IV 

Examination of teachers, by IV 

Collect fees ; IV 

Certificates issued — revoked IV 

Enforce laws IV 

Fines enforced by IV 

Apportion school fund IV 

Approve surety bonds IV 

Certify budgets IV 

Require reports IV 

Administer oaths IV 

Keep records — reports IV 

Prepare map IV 

Hear appeals IV 

Decision, appeal from IV 

Procedure in appeal 

See Italics 

Call meetings IV 

Oath and bond IV 

Salaries — classification of counties IV 

Office at county seat IV 



6 


(m) 


32 


2 


• 


66 


3 




16 
78 


1 


(1) 


7 


6 


(f) 


30 


4 




36 


1 


(e) 


11 


4 


(c) 


37 


1 


(f) 


11 


5 




39 


6 




39 


1 


(f) 


11 


7 




39 


2 




38 


3 




38 


4 




38 


1 




38 


2 




38 


3 




38 


4 




38 


5 




39 


7 




39 


3 


(a) 


43 


3 


(a) 


43 


3 


(b) 


44 


3 


(c) 


44 




is) 


9 






11 




(a) 


11 




(b) 


11 




(c) 


11 




(d) 


11 




(e) 


11 




(f) 


11 




(g) 


12 




(h) 


12 




(h) 


12 




(i) 


12 




(J) 


12 




(k) 


12 




(I) 


12 




(m) 


12 




(n) 


12 




(0) 


12 




(o) 


12 




(P) 


12 




(P) 


13 




(q) 


13 




(q) 


13 
14 




(r) 


13 




(s) 


13 


2 




13 


3 




14 



r 



Sec. 


Sub-Sec. 


Page 


3 




14 


3 

1 


(c) 


18 
51 
75 


1 


(c) 


6 


1 


(g) 


7 


5 


(b) 


45 


3 




70 


4 


(a) 


70 


1 
1 


(a) 
(e) 


6 
9 



83 

Art. 
Deputy — appointed by 

See Italics IV 

County Treasurer 

Transfer of funds in case of union of districts V 

Fees X 

See also Italics 

Courses of Study 

Recommended by State Board of Education II 

Prescribe by State Board of Education for state institu- 
tions II 

Debt, Bonded 

Limitation X 

Delinquent Children XVII 

Defectives and dependents 

State teacher of adult blind XVII 

Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction 

Appointment of II 

Nomination of : Ill 

Diplomas 

See "Examination and Certification" 

District Hlg-h Schools VI 3 35 

Districts, School 

"What constitutes V 

Body corporate V 

Basis for classification V 

First class districts defined V 

Second class districts defined V 

County school districts V 

Local school districts V 

Joint school districts V 

County high school districts V 

L^nion high school districts V 

New — how organized V 

Education 

State Board of II 

Boards of, in districts in cities "operating under special 

charter XVIII 

Educational Commission 

See "State Educational Commission" 
Elections 

Notice of time and place V 

V 

Electors, qualifications of V 

Registration list — copy by County Clerk V 

Precincts V 

Boundaries — certification to County Clerk by Secretary... V 

Judges V 

Oath, by judges V 

Ballot boxes and poll books V 

Candidates — ballots V 

Manner of voting V 

Violations of election laws V 

What constitutes a violation V 

Penalties V 

Counting the ballots V 

Election reports transmitted V 

Canvass of returns V 

Application of provision to all elections, except V 

Elections, Bond 

For land and buildings V 

V 

V 

X 

For funding floating debt V 

V 

V 

X 
Elections, Special 

Provision of Article V, Section .5 to applv. except V 

X 

Boards of Directors may call V 

In county school districts V 

Powers of electors (all districts, except local) V 

Powers of electors (local districts) V 

Electors 

Director must be qualified elector V 

Qualifications of V 

Powers of (all districts, except local) V 

Powers of (local districts) V 

Elementary and Rural School Visitor 

Appointment of II 

Nomination of Ill 

Elementary and Secondary Instruction 

Classification of schools VT 

EJlementary schools VI 

Junior high schools VT 

Senior high schools VI 

Application of clas.«:ification VI 



1 




15 


1 




15 


2 




15 


2 


(a) 


15 


2 


(b) 


15 


2 


(c) 


16 


2 


(d) 


16 


2 


(e) 


16 


2 


(f) 


16 


2 


(g) 


16 


3 




16 
6 


1 




71 


5 


(a) 


23 


6 


(i) 


31 


5 


(b) 


23 


t> 


(b) 


24 


5 


(c) 


24 


5 


(c) 


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5 


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24 


5 


(d) 


24 


5 


(e) 


25 


r 


(f) 


25 


5 


(g) 


26 


5 


(h) 


27 


5 


(h) 


27 


5 


(h) 


27 


5 


(i) 


28 


5 


(i) 


28 


5 


(i) 


28 


5 


(J) 


29 


6 


(i) 


31 


10 


(a) 


34 


10 


(b) 


34 


5 


(b) 


45 


6 


(i) 


31 


10 


(a) 


34 


10 


(b) 


34 


6 




49 


5 


(J) 


29 


5 


(b) 


48 


6 


(i) 


31 


7 


(b) 


33 


10 


(a) 


34 


10 


(b) 


34 


4 


(a) 


19 


5 


(b) 


23 


10 


(a) 


34 


10 


(b) 


34 


1 


(a) 


6 


1 


(e) 


9 


1 




35 


1 


(a) 


35 


1 


(b) 


36 


1 


(c) 


35 


2 




35 



84 

Art. 

District higrh schools VI 

County high schools VI 

Existing union high* schools VI 

English Language 

See "Instruction" 

EJxamination and Certification of Teachers 

Supervision by State Board of Education II 

Certificates required of all teachers XIV 

Certificates — kinds granted XIV 

County certificates XIV 

State certificates XIV 

Honorary certificates XIV 

County certificates XIV 

For elementary schools XIV 

Third grade certificates XIV 

Second grade certificates XIV 

First grade certificates XIV 

High school certificates XIV 

State certificates XIV 

Temporary XIV 

Elementary . . . XIV 

Elementary and high school XIV 

Permanent XIV 

Elementary certificates XIV 

Elementary and high school certificates XIV 

Honorary certificates XIV 

Examinations 

Of special teachers, by Boards of Directors V 

Physical, of school children XI 

Time and place XIV 

Qestions prepared by Superintendent of Public Instruction XIV 

Rules for, by State Board of Education XIV 

Revocation of certificates XIV 

Subject to appeal to State Board of Education XIV 

Transfer of credentials XIV 

By County Superintendent XIV 

By State Board of Education XIV 

Expenses 

Of County School District Directors V 

Extension Bureau II 

Fraternities 

Exclusion of pupils who belong V 

See also Italics 

Fees 

Accounting for, by Superintendent of Public Instruction. Ill 

Accounting for, by County Superintendent IV 

Registration, State Normal District Institute XVI 

Fines 

Accruing to county public school fund VIII 

See also Italics 

First Class Districts 

See "Districts, School" 

See also "Boards of Directors" 
Flags 

See Italics 75 

Free Text Books 

See "Text Books and Apparatus" 
Funds 

Apportionment of 

See "Apportionment" 

State public school income fund defined. VIII 

County public school fund defined VIII 

School Emergency or Call fund VIIT 

Aid to school districts fund VIII 

Building funds X 

Normal Institute XVI 

Garnishments 

See Italics 76 

Hazing 

See Italics 76 

Health and Sanitary Control 

Health Officer XI 

Provision for XI 

Powers and duties XI 

School Nurse XI 

Provision for XI 

Powers and duties XI 

School clinics XI 

Physical examination of school children XI 

Charts and cards XI 

Report to school authorities XI 

Appropriation XI 

Health Officer 

See "Health and Sanitary Control" 
High School Visitor 

Appointment of II 

Nomination of Ill 



Sec. 


Sub-Sec. 


Pa^e 


3 




35 


4 




36 


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38 


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(b) 


6 


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2 




56 


2 


(a) 


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2 


(b) 


56 


2 


(b) 


56 


3 




56 


3 


(a) 


56 


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(a) 


56 


3 


(a) 


57 


3 


(a) 


57 


3 


(b) 


57 


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58 


4 


(a) 


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(a) 


58 


4 


(a) 


58 


4 


(b) 


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4 


(b) 


58 


4 


(b) 


58 


4 


(b) 


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6 


(f) 


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4 




52 


5 


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85 

Art. Sec. Sub-Sec. Page 

Hig-h Schools 

See "Elementary and Secondary Instruction" 

Holidays XV 

See also Italics 

Household Economics 

Courses in II 

Industrial School for Boys 

Education of inmates II 

See also Italics 

Industrial School for Girls 

Education of inmates II 

See also Italics 

Industrial Subjects 

Instruction in II 

V 

Institutes 

See "Teachers" 

Instruction 

Standard of, in state institutions, determined by II 

Required in English language II 

In secondary schools, in 

Agriculture, household economics, commercial, indus- 
trial and teacher training classes II 

In music, vocal expression, manual training, voca- 
tional, drawing, industrial, household economics . . V 
Interest 

See also Italics 

Investment of School Funds VIII 

Joint School Districts , 

See "Districts, School" 

Junior High Schools 

See "Elementary and Secondary Instruction" 

Kindergarten Schools 

Establishment of, by Boards of Directors V 6 (f) 30 

Librarian, Assistant State 

See "Assistant State Librarian" 

Librarian, State 

See "State Librarian" 

Librarian II 1 (t) 8 

Libraries 

Rules and regulations concerning II 1 (d) 7 

School, establishment of, by Boards of Directors V 6 (f) 30 

Library Methods 

Courses in II 1 (k) 7 

Library, County 

See "County Library" 
Library, County Board 

See "County Board Library" 
Local School Districts . 

See "Districts School" 

See also "Boards of Directors" 

Manual Training 

Instruction in V 

Meetings 

County Superintendent shall call IV 

Of citizens to organize new district V 

Of Boards of Directors V 

Special of electors in local districts V 

Of electors in local districts V 

State Teachers' Reading Circle XVI 

Museums 

Rules and regulations concerning II- 

Establishment of, by Boards of Directors V 

Music 

Instruction in V 

Minimum Salary 

Of teachers XV 

Minimum School Term XV 

New Districts 

Organization of V 

Night Schools 

Establishment of, by Boards of Directors V 

Org-anization of New Districts 

From old districts or unorganized territory V 

Method of organization V 

Union of old districts V 

Joint districts V 

Apportionment to new district V 

Open Air Schools 

Establishment of, by Boards of Directors V 

Orphan Schools 

Establishment of, by Boards of Directors V 

Parental Schools 

Establishment of, by Boards of Directors V 



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86 

Art. 
Parent-Teachers' Associations 

Information concerning II 

Parochial Schools 

See "Private Institutions" 
Pensions 

Teachers XV 

Physical EJxamination 

Of school children XI 

Playgrounds 

Rules and regulations concerning II 

Establishment of, by Boards of Directors V 

President of Board of Directors 

See "Boards of Directors" 

Private Institutions 

Reports and records required II 

Inspection of U 

Instruction in English language required II 

Recognition of XVII 

Public Contracts 

See Italics 76 

Public Schools 

See "Schools" 
Pupils 

Suspension of, by w^hom V 

Exclusion of, when V 

Transportation of V 

Transfer of V 

Transportation of "V 

Reading Circle, State Teachers XVI 

Reformatory Institutions 

Uniform records and reports required II 

Inspection of II ' 

Instruction in English language II 

Education of inmates II 

Refunding Bonds 

See "Bonds" 
Registry Bureau 

For teachers and librarians II 1 (t) 

Register of Adult Blind 

How obtained XVII 

Expenses . . . , XVII 

Repeal of Conflicting Provisions XVIII 

Reports 

Semi-annual financial, by District Treasurer V 

Financial statement of Secretary "V 

Financial statement of Treasurer "V 

To State Board of Education and County Superintendent, 

by Boards of Directors V 

Biennial, of State Board of Education II 

Biennial of Superintendent of Public Instruction Ill 

. Quarterly, by County Treasurer V 

Annual, by Secretary of Board V 

Of County Superintendent IV 

Salaries 

Assistant State Librarian II 

Superintendent of Public Instruction Ill 

County Superintendent IV 

Teachers .- XV 

Sanitation 

See "Schools and School Buildings," also 

"Health and Sanitary Control." 

School Districts 

See "Districts, School." 
Schools 

Reorganization of, in county school districts II 

Short Term of, when II 

XV 

Duplicate plans of buildings II 

^ Sanitary features of, regulation II 

' Sale of apparatus, regulations concerning II 

Sale of books, regulations concerning II 

Recommendations concerning instruction in secondary... II 

General supervision, by State Board II 

Ernployes, system of examination of II 

Visited by County Superintendent IV 

Night, maintenance V 

Orphan, established V 

Superintendent of V 

Courses of study, in V 

Alien, established V 

Open air, establshed V 

Libraries in V 

Parental established V 

Truant, established V 

See also Italics 

.Clinical, established V 



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Art. 

Hours of, fixed V 

Primary, hour of dismissal V 

Length of school year V 

Associated in districts V 

Property, care of, and ownership V 

Length of school day "V 

Employes, examination of, in first class districts V 

Duration of school year XV 

Holidays XV 

School Boards 

See "Board of Directors." 

School Buildings and Sanitation." 

Regulations concerning, by State Board 11 

Duplicate plans prepared by State Board 11 

Provisions for facilities X 

Character of buildings X 

Regulations concerning, by State Board of Education X 

Power of Superintendent of Public Instruction X 

Failure to maintain suitable buildings X 

Use of buildings X 

Used for public meetings, when X 

Erection of X 

Plans approved by State Board X 

Contractor give bond X 

Bonds for erection X 

School Census 

Supervision of, by State Board of Education H 

Definition of XVII 

How kept XVII 

School Clinics 

See "Health and Sanitary Control." 

School Law 

Interpretation of, by Superintendent of Public Instruction. Ill 1 (h) 9 

School of Mines 

See Italics 39 

See Italics 77 

School Nurse 

See "Health and Sanitary Control." 

Secondary Instruction 

See "Elementary and Secondary Instruction," also 
"Training of Teachers in High Schools." 

Second Class Districts 

See "Districts, School." 

See also "Boards of Directors." 

Secretary of Board of Directors 

Assignment of duties to County Superintendent, in county 

school districts V 7 (c) 33 

See "Boards of Directors." 
Senior High Schools 

See "Elementary and Secondary Instruction." 

State and the Child, The XVII 66 

State Board of Education 

Who shall constitute n 

Organization and meetings II 

Powers and duties n 

Appoint officers and employes 11 

Supervision of schools in general 11 

Recommend courses of study 11 

Regulation of educational facilities n 

Require uniform records and reports n 

Inspection of private institutions n 

Control education in special state institutions II 

Supervise teacher-training II 

Supervise examination of teachers II 

Require instruction to be in English language II 

Conduct examinations II 

Regulations concerning buildings II 

Conduct educational meetings 11 

Supervise school census II 

Power to hear appeals II 

Make report to governor U 

Recommend legislation 11 

Disseminate educational information 11 

Regulate architectural plans of 11 

Regulate sanitation of schools II 

Organize and conduct teachers 'institutes II 

Organize and conduct summer normal training schools. ... II 

Supervise education of adults II 

Power to subpoena and examine witnesses n 

Appear before assembly, when II 

General powers of II 

Recommend reorganization of schools in county school 

districts n 

Conduct extension bureau II 

Maintain registry for teachers and librarians 11 

Authorize short school term 11 

Appoint officers, employes, and advisory bodies n 

Appoint State Library Commission 11 







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Art. 

Employes of, how paid II 

State Bureau of Child & Animal Protection 

Notified, when XI 

State Educational Commission 

Who shall constitute — powers — duties I 

Appointment — term I 

Vacancies — how filled I 

Organization and meetings I 

Compensation , . . . I 

Recommendations to Superintendent of PulDlic Instruction I 

State Home and Training School for Mental Defectives 

Education of inmates II 

See also Italics 

State Home for Dependent and Neglected Children 

Education of inmates II 

See also Italics 

State Librarian 

Prescribe regulations II 

State Library Commission II 

State Normal District Institutes 

See "Teachers." 

State Normal Schools XIII 

See also "Training of Teachers." 

See also Italics 

State Teachers' College XIII 

Part of public school system XIII 

Diplomas — examination — graduation XIII 

Diploma — license to teach — annulment XIII 

See also "Training of Teachers." 

See also Italics * 

State Teachers' Reading Circle Board XVI 

State Teacher of Adult Blind XVII 

Statistician 

Appointment by State Board II 

Nomination by Superintendent of Public Instruction Ill 

Summer Normal Training Schools for Teachers XVI 

Superintendent of Public Instruction 

Recommendations to, by State Educational Commission.. I 

Powers and duties Ill 

Oath and bond Ill 

Office — seal — ^records Ill 

Report to State Board of Education Ill 

Ex-officio relationship Ill 

Pay fees — State Treasurer Ill 

Expenses — how paid Ill 

Salary Ill 

Nomination of assistants Ill 

_ Recommendations to State Board of Education HI 

Supervision of school system Ill 

Supervision of teachers' institutes Ill 

Interpretation of school law Ill 

Preparation of blank forms for county school officers Ill 

Preparation of test charts for physical examination of 

school children Ill 

XI 

Furnishing blank forms to county officers Ill 

Printing of school law Ill 

Powers in regard to certificates EEI 

Apportionment of school fund Ill 

IX 
Fixing of surety bond of Secretary of Board of Trustees 

of Teachers' College and Normal Schools Ill 

Direction of employes of Board Ill 

General Ill 

Power to endorse and annul license to teach XIII 

Prepare examination questions and rate papers XIV 

Member of State Teachers' Reading Circle XVI 

Call meeting of State Teachers' Reading Circle XVI 

Contract for books XVI 

Designate depository of books XVI 

Survey of Schools in County School District V 

Taxation 

County Superintendent certify to County Commissioners IV 
Certification of amount needed, to County Superintendent 

by Boards V 

Certification of amount needed in local districts V 

Certification of estimated amount of money needed for 

year VIII 

District, county, and union high school purposes VIII 

Local district VIII 

Tax Levies 

Certification of budgets for 

By County Superintendent IV 

By Boards of Directors V 

; By local district boards V 

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Art. 

For bonds X 

For refunding bonds X 

Tax — Special 

In local districts V 

Authorized by electors in local districts V 

Authorized by electors in first and second class and county 

school districts V 

For building- purposes X 

Teachers 

In state institutions for minors II 

System of examination of, by State Board of Education... II 

Summer normal training schools for II 

Institutes, organized by II 

Training- classes of, in secondary schools II 

Registry for ^ II 

Nomination of, by County Superintendent IV 

Examination of, by County Superintendent IV 

Election of, by Boards of Directors V 

Nomination of, by Superintendent of Schools V 

Employment of, by Boards of Directors V 

Exchange of V 

Examination of, by County Superintendent XIV 

Appointment of XV 

Remuneration XV 

Pension law XV 

Tenure XV 

Dismissal — when XV 

State Reading Circle XVI 

Training- of, in service XVI 

Meetings and institutes XVI 

State normal district institutes XVI 

Summer normal training schools XVI 

Teachers' Registry II 

Teacher Training 

See "Training of Teachers." 

Teachers' Certificates 

Suspension, revocation, reinstatement, by Superintendent 

of Public Instruction Ill 1 (1) 10 

See also "Examination and Certification of Teachers,' 
Term of School 

Short term authorized II 

Minimum term XV 

Term of Office 

State Educational Commission I 

Text Books 

Regulations concerning sale and distribution II 

Supplied to poor children V 

Furnished free — when V 

Free books determined by electors V 

Furnished free — when V 

State lists of books xn 

Sale of apparatus XII 

Samples to be retained by state xn 

Free text books Xn 

Copies of lists of books and apparatus furnished to school 

authorities XII 

Selection of, by State Teachers' Reading Circle XVI 

Third Class Districts 

See "Local School Districts" under "Districts, School." 
Tobacco 

See Italics 74 

Training of Teachers 

Advisory supervision of Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion over institutions for such HI 

State Normal School at Greeley XIII 

Part of public school system XIII 

Diplomas — examination — graduation XHI 

Diploma — license to teach — annulment XHI 

Classes in high school for training XIII 

Application for teacher training class XIII 

State Board of Education — authorize support of xm 

Superintendent of Public Instruction issue diplomas XIII 

Authorize payment of instructors XHI 

Restriction of number of classes xm 

Training of Teachers in Service 

State Reading Circle XVI 

Board — appointment XVI 

Board — powers — duties — expense XVI 

Contract for books XVI 

Teachers' meetings and institutes XVI 

Provision for XVI 

Attendance XVI 

Substitutes for meetings XVI 

State normal district institutes XVI 

Districts — boundaries XVI 

Meetings and instructors XVI 

Executive committee XVI 

Financial support XVI 



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Disbursements from normal institute fund XVI 3 (e) 64 

Summer normal training schools XVI 3 (f) 65 

Training Schools 

Summer Normal, for teachers XVI 3 (f) 65 

Transfer of Pupils 
See "Pupils." 

Transportation of Pupils 
See "Pupils." 

Treasurer of Board of Directors 

See "Boards of Directors." 
Union High Schools 

County Superintendent — member and president of com- 
mittee IV 

EJxisting Union High Schools - VI 

See also "Districts, School." 

University of Colorado 

See Italics 

See Italics 

Tuition Fees 

Determined by Board of Directors V 

In case of transfer V 

Vacancies 

State Educational Commission I 

In Boards of second class and local districts IV 

In first class districts V 

In Boards of second class and local districts V 

In county school districts V 

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apathy 6f the people who are in favor of their adoption. After you have 
informed yourself concerning the merits of the Code, why not write to your 
Legislators urging them to vote for it? For your convenience we suggest that 
a letter somewhat as follows would answer the purpose: 

''I have informed myself concerning the proposed Educational 
Code introduced as Senate Bill Number 312 and House Bill Number 
418, and believe that its enactment into law wiU greatly advance the 
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